What's the function of a route table?

The route table is a flow controller in VPC, and realizes the global and subnet-level traffic control by a global route table. You can customize the route rules to control the guide destination of network traffic.

What are the advantages of route policy of Baidu AI Cloud?

The global route table of Baidu can realize the simple and easy management and scheduling of the subnet-level traffic. The route table of Baidu AI Cloud also supports the source IP policy route (A ticket needs to be submitted for subscription) to realize the traffic scheduling based on the source IP.

What are the route forwarding policy supported by Baidu AI Cloud?

The route policy based on the subnet level also supports the source IP policy route (A ticket needs to be submitted for subscription) to realize the traffic scheduling based on the source IP.

What are the next hop types of the route table?

Currently, Baidu AI Cloud supports the next hops of the local forwarding, BCC instance, NAT gateway, VPN gateway, other types, peer connection, and express tunnel gateway.

What are the limitations in the configuration of a route table?

• The upper limit to the number of route table entries is 50.
• The routes distributed by the system cannot be deleted, and the route entries cannot be edited, and can be modified only by reconstruction after being deleted.
• The custom route table only supports static routes, and all segments in the route table must be valid CIDRs.
• When selecting the custom source segments, we should guarantee that in the segments are within the existing subnet range.
• The target network and the current VPC CIDR cannot overlap (except when the target segment or the current VPC CIDR is 0.0.0.0/0).
• The source segment and target segment of the added route table cannot be the same with the existing segments in the route table.