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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
attachments tab.
On the VLAN attachment details page, 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:
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