Virtual Routing & Forwarding (VRF) for Overlapping IP Space on Dedicated and Shared Ports | Voters

Virtual Routing & Forwarding (VRF) for Overlapping IP Space on Dedicated and Shared Ports

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Raj Venkat

Support Virtual Routing & Forwarding (VRF) to support private, overlapping Layer 3 connectivity leveraging a customer's own public or private IPv4 blocks. Enable support on dedicated ports as well as shared ports.

February 28, 2022

Raj Venkat

Merged in a post:

Shared Fabric Port for VRF

Damian Sieczkowski

Allow use of VRF with Shared Fabric Ports.

June 24, 2022

August 30, 2022

Raj Venkat

Merged in a post:

Multiple ASN Support for BGP

Damian Sieczkowski

Allow customers to use multiple ASNs to announce their IPs.

December 14, 2020

May 23, 2022

Raj Venkat

Merged in a post:

Use Your IPs as Equinix Metal Elastic IPs

Damian Sieczkowski

Instead of running and configuring BIRD to announce your block on Equinix Metal... users supply their ASN and IP blocks so they can be managed as an Elastic IP Address Pool. Users control where they want to attach their IPs through the portal and API, just like Equinix Metal Elastic IPs!

August 12, 2020

May 23, 2022

Zachary Smith

Merged in a post:

Internet Gateway

James Malachowski

Ability to have an Internet gateway and enable private IP space or VLANs to access the Internet through a default route.

August 25, 2020

May 23, 2022

Zachary Smith

With the VRF feature nearing completing, the API specification and Equinix Terraform provider are available:
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/equinix/equinix/latest/docs/resources/equinix_metal_vrf
https://metal.equinix.com/developers/api/vrfs/

Jason Powers

marked this post as

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Andy Tan

good idea

I also need

Chris Harris

What would be lovely as part of this would be a basic stateful firewall to put in front of ones dedicated server. One could then have the option of a private IP space using NAT or not.

Adam Rothschild

this specific use case is something for our bgp/default route feature; f5 should support that. with that said, let's get this on the map for q2, we've got some good designs for this...

Damian Sieczkowski

Hi Raj Venkat, do you know when this would be available for use? Currently, a deployment that requires internet connectivity in an active/passive highly available setup using a virtual IP, eg a pair of HA Fortinet or F5 appliances, requires a user to create their own top level networking infrastructure that can provide this functionality. It would be extremely useful to have a default internet gateway available on an L2 VLAN so this HA functionality can be supported without the additional network setup.

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