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Customize Q-in-Q
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Customize Q-in-Q

  1. Enable Q-in-Q on the switch port.
  2. Configure Q-in-Q on the Selectel firewall.

1. Enable Q-in-Q on the switch port⁠

Q-in-Q can only be enabled for a private network.

When Q-in-Q is enabled, there may be a brief private network down time for servers on the selected VLAN.

  1. Create a ticket In the ticket, specify the VLAN numbers, which can be viewed in the control panel. control panel: in the top menu click Products → Dedicated Servers → Network → tab VLAN.
  2. In the ticket created, wait for a Selectel employee to respond that Q-in-Q is enabled.

2. Configure Q-in-Q on the Selectel firewall⁠

  1. Connect to the Selectel firewall through the GUI.
  2. From the Interfaces menu, go to Assignments.
  3. Open the QinQs tab.
  4. Press + Add.
  5. In the Parent Interface field, select the interface to which the Q-in-Q will be configured.
  6. Enter the VLAN number in the First level tag field. You can view it in the Control Panel: from the top menu, click Products → Dedicated Servers → Network → VLAN tab.
  7. In the Tag(s) field, enter the tag for the VLAN, a number from 1 to 4094.
  8. Click Save.
  9. Open the Interfaces Assignments tab.
  10. Click in the row of the desired interface Q-in-Q + Add.
  11. Click the name of the Q-in-Q interface you added.
  12. Change the interface settings.
  13. Click Save.
  14. Create permissive rules for the interface.