Disable VLAN attachments

You can temporarily disable a VLAN attachment for a Partner Interconnect connection so that it stops forwarding packets. This can be useful, for example, for testing failover.

Disable one connection to test that the redundant connection can successfully serve traffic.

Console

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud Interconnect VLAN attachmentstab.

Go to VLAN attachments
Select a VLAN attachment to disable.
On the VLAN attachment detailspage, click Disable. The attachment stops forwarding packets within a minute or two. To re-enable the attachment, click Enable.

gcloud

To disable an existing active attachment, use the --no-admin-enabled flag:
```
gcloud compute interconnects attachments partner update my-attachment
    --region= REGION 
--no-admin-enabled
```
Replace REGION with the region that your VLAN attachment is located in.

The attachment stops forwarding packets within a minute or two.

To enable the attachment, use the --admin-enabled flag.

What's next

To create a Partner Interconnect connection, see the Partner Interconnect provisioning overview .
To learn more about Cloud Interconnect options, see the Cloud Interconnect overview .
To help you solve common issues that you might encounter when using Partner Interconnect, see Troubleshooting .