Description:

  • For low-volumn data connections
  • Supports:
    • Site-to-site VPN
    • Static routes
    • Dynamic routes with GCP Router
  • Cloud VPN tunnel:
  • Cloud VPN gateway:
  • Peer VPN gateway:

Classic VPN:

  • Deprecated, use HA VPN
  • Encrypt and descrypt data on public internet
  • Cloud VPN Gateway
    • regional resource that uses a regional external IP address
  • maximum transmission unit, or MTU, for your on-premises VPN gateway cannot be greater than 1460 bytes.
  • A VPN tunnel then connects your VPN gateways and serves as the virtual medium through which encrypted traffic is passed.
  • In order to create a connection between two VPN gateways, you must establish two VPN tunnels.
  • Each tunnel defines the connection from the perspective of its gateway, and traffic can only pass when the pair of tunnels is established.