PAN-220919
Description of PAN-220919.
Auto VPN creates a virtual SD-WAN interface named sdwan.901 for direct internet access
(DIA) and creates a virtual SD-WAN interface named sdwan.9xx for VPN tunnels. When you
enable Auto VPN, the SD-WAN plugin creates the SD-WAN interfaces automatically. Hence,
it's not necessary for you to create SD-WAN interfaces manually. The SaaS quality
profile works only with one DIA interface that is sdwan.901.
Auto VPN also creates its own default route that uses the sdwan.901 interface as its
egress interface and uses a low metric of 5, so that the sdwan.901 interface is
preferred over the default route you created.
There might be scenarios where you want to create an SD-WAN interface manually (other
than what the SD-WAN plugin creates automatically) like the following:
- Configuring SD-WAN direct internet access (DIA) links only and no VPN connections
between the hub and branch locations
- (Not recommended) Deploying SD-WAN manually between SD-WAN sites without Panorama
management server
In such cases, you must configure the manually created SD-WAN interface outside of the
SDWAN.9xx range containing a route with a metric higher than the default value.