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- Add a DirectCLOUD configuration
Add a DirectCLOUD configuration
Updated by Joseph Thorwest
This article provides a step-by-step guide for attaching a DirectCLOUD connection for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or IBM to your Cloud ROUTER.
This article does not provide guidance on how to create a Cloud ROUTER service itself. For this purpose, see Create a Cloud ROUTER.
Guide
Before you can add a connection to a DirectCLOUD service, you need to order a DirectCLOUD service itself. You find the guides for your desired cloud down below.
- Follow those guides up to and including step 5 a.
- For AWS
- For Azure
- For Google Cloud
- For IBM
- Instead of following step 5 b, click on Add connection details from the Connect to Cloud ROUTER field. This attaches the Cloud VLAN to the Cloud ROUTER.
- Configure the DirectCLOUD connectionYou can choose to complete this step later if needed. For this purpose, follow these guides for Azure, AWS, IBM or GCloud.
- Specifying the following information:
- Your Cloud Router
- External Reference: The name for your configuration
- The BGP IP of the Cloud Router with the subnet mask (we recommend using a /30)
- The BGP IP of the Cloud Service Provider
- BGP Password (Optional)
- The BGP Neighbour ASN:
- CSP ASNs
- GCP: 16550
- Azure: 12076
- IBM: 13884
- AWS: is the ASN you have configured in the portal
- CSP ASNs
- Cloud VLAN (not mandatory for every CSP)
- Click on Submit.The default setting for BFD (Bidirectional forwarding detection) is "yes". We recommend not changing it, as it improves the stability of your connection.
- Specifying the following information:
You successfully attached your connection to the Cloud ROUTER.
If the CSP side is well configured, the BGP will be up after some minutes.
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