AWS Direct Connect Support

Product Discussion Feature Requests
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AWS Direct Connect is becoming more common in use and allows for much higher speeds than the Speedfusion VPN. A very common use case is DX for high-bandwidth items that are distributed to a datacenter as well connected to the VPN network. The Speedfusion hub does not provide the needed speeds to connect an EPX faster than 3Gbps. A DX can use the full 30G bandwidth.

The issue I’ve had is the BGP doesn’t properly support AWS’s MD5 requirements so the Pepwave will not neighbor properly to a DX circuit.

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@Eric_Falkner ,

Do you discussed with Peplink support for the mentioned issue ? If not, can you open a support ticket to allow us to review the issue ? Supposedly we do have the option to enable the BGP MD5 authentication for the BGP session.

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We would like to know the detail info for the “BGP doesn’t properly support AWS’s MD5 requirements” as mentioned so that we can confirm the issue.

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A support ticket was opened through Frontier Computer Corp and support told them “they let me know they haven’t checked out working with AWS Direct connect at this moment.”

I would love if someone in Peplink had insight into making BGP work for it.

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Hi Eric, did you ever get AWS DirectConnect to work on the Peplink?

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No. Never was able to get it to work. Support did not have a solution either. We are moving to another switch for the BGP.

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@Eric_Falkner ,

Possible to create a ticket to allow us to check on the BGP connection ? We would like to confirm which part for the BGP settings is not working as expected.

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I already did a while back (via Frontier Computer Corp) and supports answer was they didn’t know how to support AWS Direct Connect:

“After checking with Peplink, they let me know they haven’t checked out working with AWS Direct connect at this moment.”

They have asked it be put on the roadmap.

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Hi Eric,

I’ve added you to the Peplink ticket in which the request was made.

Sit Loongs, ticket # is 22120729 if you would like to continue working on the issue there.

Please utilize the ticket to further investigate the issue here.

Thanks
Zakk