NFA: SD-WAN Device with ifIndex 4294967295

Products

• Network Flow Analysis

Issue/Introduction

While using Network Flow Analysis to monitor your SD-WAN devices, you may notice an interface without SNMP information with an ifIndex of 4294967295 .

Environment

Component : NQRPTA - REPORTERANALYZER

Cause

Viptela and other SD-WAN devices may use interface 4294967295 as an aggregate for the Broadcast and Multicast data. 

Resolution

Due to how they aggregate the data, this is functioning as designed.