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Updated at April 25, 2024   09:18 AM

Managing advanced routers

You can manage advanced routers: view, edit and delete them.

Advanced routers are only available with SDN Sprut. To find out which SDN is used in your project or to connect another, contact technical support.

View a list of advanced routers

  1. Go to your VK Cloud personal account.
  2. Go to Cloud networksRouters. A list of routers will be displayed. For advanced routers, the Router Type column indicates Advanced.
  3. Click the name of the router you need. A page will open with detailed information about it. You can edit router parameters on this page .

Adding an advanced router

  1. Go to your personal account VK Cloud.

  2. Go to Cloud networksRouters.

  3. Click the Add router button.

  4. In the Router type field choose Advanced. If this field is missing, SDN Sprut is not enabled in your project. Please, contact technical support, to enable SDN Sprut and advanced routers.

  5. Set parameters of the router:

    • Name. You can use numbers, Latin letters, space and symbols: ? ! ~ @ # $ % ^ " & _ - + * = ; : , . / \ | ` [ ] { } ( ) < >.

    • Availability zone: choose an availability zone you need.

    • Description: an optional field.

    • SNAT: enable the option if you need to convert private IP addresses into public ones for access from the project network to the Internet. When you add the router interface directed to an external network, SNAT is enabled automatically.

  6. Click the Add button.

Editing an advanced router

  1. Go to your VK Cloud personal account.

  2. Go to Cloud networksRouters.

  3. Start editing the router settings in one of the following ways:

    • Click the name of the router and then click the Edit button on the General information tab.
    • Expand the router menu and select Edit router.
  4. You can do the following:

    • Edit the name of the router.

    • Edit the description of the router.

    • Enable or disable SNAT. Enabling the option allows you to convert private IP addresses into public ones for access from the project network to the Internet. When you add the router interface directed to an external network, SNAT is enabled automatically.

  5. Click the Save button to complete the editing.

Viewing an advanced router statistics

  1. Go to your VK Cloud personal account.

  2. Go to Cloud networksRouters.

  3. Click the name of the router you need.

  4. Go to the Statistics tab.

The tab provides statistical information on the advanced router:

  • The time when the last information was received from the service. Information about the service status is updated at intervals of up to 5 minutes.
  • The router's readiness for use.
  • The number of routes received in announcements from BGP neighbors and added to the routing table.
  • The number of static routes added to the routing table.
  • Router interfaces, traffic incoming and outgoing on those interfaces, and overall traffic incoming and outgoing to the router.
  • Information about BGP sessions: session status, neighbor name, incoming and outgoing BGP announcements, date and time of the last change in the BGP session.
  • Information about static routes: destination network, intermediate node and status.

Viewing a VPN information

You can find out information about VPN tunnels that use the advanced router.

  1. Go to your VK Cloud personal account.

  2. Go to Cloud networksRouters.

  3. Click the name of the router you need.

  4. Go to the VPN tab.

The tab displays statistical information on the VPN tunnels connected to the advanced router.

To find out the detailed information about a VPN tunnel, click its name. The VPN settings page will open.

Deleting an advanced router

You can delete an advanced router in the same way as a standard router.