Configuring Route tables
Configure Route tables
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Login AWS Management Console
- Find VPC
- Select VPC
- Go to VPC Management Console, and select Route tables in the left sidebar.
- Tick the routeing table My VPC Pubilc Routes, select the Routes tab on the screen below, and select Edit routes
- Select Add route. Under the Destination column, enter 10.10.0.0/16. Under the Target column, select the Peering connection that we created.
- Click Save changes. Thus, you have directed the queries for block 10.10.0.0/16 (HG VPC’s CIDR) to Peering connection that you created
- Repeat adding a peering connection for route table HG VPC Public Routes.
- Under the Destination column, enter 172.31.0.0/16. Under the Target column, select the VPC Peering that we created.
- Complete initialization.
- From EC2 - My VPC, try pinging private IP of EC2 - HG VPC. Now we have succeeded.
- However, when you try to ping public DNS of EC2 - HG VPC, you will fail because we have updated the Network ACL for the HG VPC subnets to prevent pings from the Internet. In the next section, you will click Cross-Peer DNS to fix this problem.
- At this point, we have completed the proposed lab architecture:
