I had my shiny and tiny GCP network for EVE-NG to test vEOS. I built a new VM (vm2) to be my center for automation so I can test stuff like ansible/napalm/nornir etc… But I couldn’t ping from vm2 to the vEOS instances in eve-ng (vm1). Those instances where in a different network attached to vm1 so it had to “route”.
As usual, I missed one step when I created the EVE-NG VM. The official documentation doesnt mention anything regarding enabling routing in the VM. As I am not used to Cloud environments, I assume that any simple Linux VM can forward traffic if configured.
Surprise Surprise. In GCP (not sure in other cloud providers), you need to enable “forwarding” during the VM creation and you can’t change that afterwards in any way.
After checking the second guide I followed, I realised that guide mentioned the point to enable forwarding to avoid the same problem I was facing…
So I had to gave up and had to build both VMs from scratch….
But at the end, I have routing enabled in both VMs and I can ping to the vEOS images.
And another annoying thing. I couldnt update the next hop in a static route defined in the VPC. So I had to delete it and create again pointing to the new VM with the vEOS.
And dealing with the internal IPs…
Moving on, quite frustrating day. But learned several things about GCP netwoking.