You can temporarily disable a VLAN attachment so that it stops forwarding packets. Disabling an attachment can be useful if you want to test failover. To test that a redundant connection can successfully serve traffic, disable the primary Cross-Cloud Interconnect connection.
Console
In the Cloud de Confiance console, go to the VLAN attachments tab.
Select a VLAN attachment to disable.
On the VLAN attachment details page, click Disable. The attachment stops forwarding packets within a minute or two. To re-enable the attachment, click Enable.
gcloud
Use the
gcloud compute interconnects attachments dedicated update command
with the --no-admin-enabled flag:
gcloud compute interconnects attachments dedicated update ATTACHMENT_NAME \
--region REGION \
--no-admin-enabled
Replace the following:
ATTACHMENT_NAME: the name of your VLAN attachmentREGION: the region where the attachment is located
The attachment stops forwarding packets within a minute or two.
To enable the attachment, use the --admin-enabled flag.
What's next
To learn more about Cross-Cloud Interconnect, see the Cross-Cloud Interconnect overview.
To learn about common issues that you might encounter when using Cross-Cloud Interconnect, see Troubleshooting.