Interfaces and Interface Groups
You can use predefined interface objects or interface groups as a source when defining policy rules.
Cloud Edge includes physical interface (including wireless interfaces in Routing Mode), and virtual interfaces such as VLANS and VPNs (L2TP and SSL) in the list of predefined interface objects. Optionally, you can define custom interface groups that contain one or more of the predefined interfaces.
You can select interface objects as a source when you have selected only a single Cloud Edge 50G2 gateway running Cloud Edge 6.0 or later in the Gateway Devices section.
If you select a standard/G3 gateway running Cloud Edge 5.x or earlier or a gateway group containing a standard/G3 gateway, Any-to-Any is preselected in the Interface Objects section, and this selection cannot be changed.
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Interface Type |
Name |
Interface Type |
Port Name |
Supported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Physical |
WAN |
Physical |
eth0 |
YES |
|
LAN1 |
Physical |
eth1 |
YES |
|
|
LAN2 |
Physical |
eth2 |
YES |
|
|
LAN3 |
Physical |
eth3 |
YES |
|
|
MGMT |
Physical |
eth4 |
NO |
|
|
WLAN0 |
Wi-Fi |
wlan0 |
Yes in Router Mode |
|
|
WLAN1 |
Wi-Fi |
wlan1 |
Yes in Router Mode |
|
|
Virtual |
$name |
L3 VLAN |
$name$ID Examples:
|
YES in Router Mode User inputs name. Interface exists when user adds a VLAN; does not exist when user deletes the VLAN. |
|
L2TP VPN |
YES in Router Mode Always exists even if user disables L2TP VPN. |
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|
SSL VPN |
YES in Router Mode Always exists even if user disables SSL VPN. |
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|
Site–to–Site VPN |
NO |
Interfaces contained within object groups might be deleted if you replace the gateway, do a factory reset, or switch modes between Routing Mode and Bridge Mode.
- If some interfaces are deleted by the user, the interfaces will continue to exist in related object groups and related policies in the back end.
- Users cannot see the deleted interfaces on the user interface, but they will be deployed to gateways. Gateways will ignore these non-existent interfaces.
- When a user edits and saves policy rules or interface groups again from Cloud Edge Cloud Console, the interfaces will disappear in related object groups and related policies in the back end.
