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Brocade Mobility Access Point System Reference Guide (Supporting software release 5.5.0.0 and later) User Manual

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3. Select Add to create a new L2TP V3 policy, Edit to modify the attributes of a selected policy or

Delete to remove obsolete policies from the list of those available.

FIGURE 6

L2TP V3 Policy Creation

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If creating a new L2TP V3 policy, assign it a Name up to 31 characters in length. Remember, a
single L2TP V3 policy can be used by numerous L2TP V3 tunnels.

Define the following Policy Details to add a device to a list of devices sanctioned for network
operation:

Rx Window Size

Displays the number of packets that can be received without sending an acknowledgement.

Tx Window Size

Displays the number of packets that can be transmitted without receiving an acknowledgement.

Failover Delay

Displays the time to wait before tunnel re-establishment.

Force L2 Path Recovery

Indicates if L2 Path Recovery is enabled to learn servers, gateways and other network devices
behind a L2TPV3 tunnel.

Cookie size

L2TP V3 data packets contain a session cookie which identifies the session (pseudowire)
corresponding to it. Use the spinner control to set the size of the cookie field present within each L2TP
V3 data packet. Options include 0, 4 and 8. The default setting is 0. If using the CLI, cookie size cannot
be configured per session, and are the same size for all sessions with in a tunnel.

Hello Interval

Define an interval in either Seconds (1 - 3,600), Minutes (1 -60) or Hours (1) between L2TP V3 hello
keep alive messages exchanged within the L2TP V3 control connection. The default setting is 1 minute.

Reconnect Attempts

Use the spinner control to set a value (from 0 - 250) representing the maximum number of
reconnection attempts initiated to reestablish the tunnel. The default interval is 0.

Reconnect Interval

Define an interval in either Seconds (1 - 3,600), Minutes (1 -60) or Hours (1) between two successive
reconnection attempts. The default setting is 2 minutes.