Direct Connect
3 posts tagged Direct Connect.
Direct Connect has a button that breaks it on purpose, and almost nobody presses it
StartBgpFailoverTest takes a virtual interface's BGP session down for a duration you choose, so you can watch traffic move to the backup path before an outage does it for you. It is the only honest way to know a hybrid failover works, it has a three-hour default most people do not expect, and it can be stopped at any time.
Networking6 minBFD negotiates to the slower peer, so your failover is as fast as their config
You can set a 300 millisecond interval on your side and still get whatever the other end asked for. Intervals negotiate to the slower value and can be asymmetric, which means detection time is not a number you control alone.
Networking5 minThree AWS networking limits that changed shape, not just value
A remembered quota is worse than no quota, because it feels like knowledge. Three AWS networking limits where the mechanism changed underneath the number, and the design decision each one now points at.
Networking8 min