Adding a Custom Route

Scenarios

Each route table contains a default system route, which indicates that ECSs in a VPC can communicate with each other. You can also add custom routes as required to forward the traffic destined for the destination to the specified next hop.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.

2. Click in the upper left corner and choose Network > Virtual Private Cloud.

   The Virtual Private Cloud page is displayed.

3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Virtual Private Cloud > Route Tables.
4. In the route table list, click the name of the route table to which you want to add a route.
5. Click Add Route and set parameters as prompted.

   You can click + to add more routes.

   Table 1 Parameter descriptions

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   Destination	Mandatory Enter the destination of the route. You can enter a single IP address or an IP address range in CIDR notation. NOTICE: The destination of each route in a route table must be unique. If an IP address group contains an IP address range in the format of Start IP address-End IP address, the IP address group is not supported. For example, an IP address group cannot contain 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.62. You need to change 192.168.0.1-192.168.0.62 to 192.168.0.0/26.	IPv4: 192.168.0.0/16
   Next Hop Type	Mandatory Set the type of the next hop. NOTE: When you add or modify a custom route in a default route table, the next hop type of the route cannot be set to VPN gateway or Direct Connect gateway.	VPC peering connection
   Next Hop	Mandatory Set the next hop. The resources in the drop-down list box are displayed based on the selected next hop type.	peer-AB
   Description	Optional Enter the description of the route in the text box as required.	-

6. Click OK.