Thoughts from the clouds
Yesterday I got an interesting question. How does subnet peering interact with ExpressRoute? A quick look into the official docs for Subnet peering checks and limitations didn’t give any answers, and Copilot wasn’t very helpful either: So let’s dive in! What was subnet peering again? I wrote a blog post some time ago here, feel … Continue reading Subnet peering and ExpressRoute
Azure Virtual WAN is one of the networking options offered by Azure, and routing inside of Virtual WAN has become a sort of dark art with the many supported options. Some years ago Routing Intent (also known as Routing Policies) was introduced to simplify routing, but at times you need to go back to the … Continue reading Virtual WAN static routes redistribution
After a good while without posting anything, I finally decided to slowly recommence again. This first post is about a little BGP trick that may help you increase the scale of Azure Route Server. Typically the maximum number of 8 BGP peers should be enough for most designs, but if you happen to need to … Continue reading Going beyond 8 peers in Azure Route Server
The square design in ExpressRoute is not a recommended practice, but it can mean savings in ExpressRoute costs of up to 90%.
I see more and more organizations deploying workloads across different clouds, and some times those workloads need to communicate between each other. There are multiple options to connect clouds together, the cheapest being an encrypted network tunnel over the public Internet, also known as IPsec VPN. All clouds support deploying your favorite network vendor as … Continue reading Tunnels Between Clouds
Quite frequently I see Azure connectivity diagrams that do not reflect accurately the topology of Azure Virtual Networks connnected to on-premises data centers via ExpressRoute. Additionally, I got the question last week of how to do some basic BGP troubleshooting in the involved networking devices in a way which is understandable by network administrators (read … Continue reading CLI-based analysis of an ExpressRoute private peering
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