Question

Your company has ordered a Partner Interconnect connection through a supported service provider. In the Google Cloud console you have created a VLAN attachment and received a pairing key, which you provided to your provider. The provider reports they have configured their side, but the VLAN attachment still shows an inactive state and you cannot pass traffic. What is the required next step to bring the attachment into service?

Accepted Answer

Manually activate the VLAN attachment in the console after verifying the configuration, since Google does not auto-activate provider-provisioned attachments

Answer

Delete the attachment and recreate it with encryption enabled so the provider can complete the BGP handshake

Answer

Configure a Classic VPN tunnel over the attachment to establish the initial data path before BGP can come up

Answer

Regenerate a new pairing key and send it to the provider because the original key expires immediately after the attachment is created