Creates a new BGP peer for a specified route server endpoint.
A route server peer is a session between a route server endpoint and the device deployed in AWS (such as a firewall appliance or other network security function running on an EC2 instance). The device must meet these requirements:
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Have an elastic network interface in the VPC
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Support BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
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Can initiate BGP sessions
For more information see Dynamic routing in your VPC with VPC Route Server in the Amazon VPC User Guide.
Request Parameters
The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- BgpOptions
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The BGP options for the peer, including ASN (Autonomous System Number) and BFD (Bidrectional Forwarding Detection) settings.
Type: RouteServerBgpOptionsRequest object
Required: Yes
- DryRun
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A check for whether you have the required permissions for the action without actually making the request and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is
DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it isUnauthorizedOperation.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- PeerAddress
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The IPv4 address of the peer device.
Type: String
Required: Yes
- RouteServerEndpointId
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The ID of the route server endpoint for which to create a peer.
Type: String
Required: Yes
- TagSpecification.N
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The tags to apply to the route server peer during creation.
Type: Array of TagSpecification objects
Required: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- requestId
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The ID of the request.
Type: String
- routeServerPeer
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Information about the created route server peer.
Type: RouteServerPeer object
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
