That’s still routed and not bridged over the DC. It’s all layer 3 over DCs 
unless (as mentioned) you use an L2 tunnelling method onto a compute VM.

- Tim

> On 12 Feb 2019, at 19:01, Andras Toth <diosbej...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if the Megaport Direct Connect is any different to a regular AWS 
> Direct Connect, but a friend of mine has successfully used a regular AWS 
> Direct Connect that they extended into their EC2 VPC and assigned IP 
> addresses to their instances from their own /28 range.
> 
> The subnet has a Route Table that would say send everything to the DX VGW to 
> make this work.
> 
> The only caveat was the .1 and .2 addresses cannot be used because that's the 
> AWS Default Gateway and DNS, etc.
> 
> Andras
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:30 PM Steve Tu <steve...@megaport.com> wrote:
>> Hi Joseph,
>> 
>> Thank your for your enquiry.
>> 
>> As Simon Thomason pointed out, AWS Direct Connect - Private Virtual 
>> Interface is mainly for connecting two private networks together by 
>> exchanging routes via BGP.
>> 
>> In your scenario of extending your on-premises network into the native AWS 
>> VPC so they are on the same broadcast domain, this is not a supported 
>> scenario. Also on AWS VPC route table, the destination via next-hop/default 
>> gateway will need to be an AWS component i.e. Virtual Private Gateway or 
>> Internet Gateway etc. and not something outside of AWS.
>> 
>> https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/
>> Please also check the Topology section of the FAQ
>> 
>> There are options such as VMware on AWS and creating a L2VPN over Direct 
>> Connect, that may suits your requirements.
>> 
>> I hope this answers your question, and if you have any further questions, 
>> please do not hesitate to contact me,
>> SteveTu
>> Solutions Architect APAC
>> 
>> Phone: +61 430 965 798
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:12 PM Gavin Tweedie <gavin.twee...@megaport.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> I'm not our cloud wizard so let me throw on a technical solutions guy or 
>>> two on this thread to bring it to their attention!
>>> 
>>> Gav
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 10:08, simon thomason <sap...@sapage.net> wrote:
>>>> I would be interested to know how you do this also.
>>>> 
>>>> My understanding is that over MP you need to peer with AWS in BGP. 
>>>> https://knowledgebase.megaport.com/cloud-connectivity/aws-cloud/ 
>>>> 
>>>> Even looking at AWS doco it says you can not 
>>>> https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/faqs/.
>>>> 
>>>> Unless you want to run GRE or something over this but i am not certain why 
>>>> you would. 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 11:53 AM Nathan Brookfield 
>>>>> <nathan.brookfi...@simtronic.com.au> wrote:
>>>>> 100% possible :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nathan Brookfield
>>>>> Chief Executive Officer
>>>>> 
>>>>> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
>>>>> http://www.simtronic.com.au
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 Feb 2019, at 12:40, Joseph Goldman <j...@apcs.com.au> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi *
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Just wondering if the following scenario is supported for EC2 instances 
>>>>> with AWS.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Over megaport, I'd like to use a VXC (Or Direct Connect) - On that 
>>>>> interface on my router, I put x.x.x.1/24, then on my EC2 instances I'd 
>>>>> want to put x.x.x.2-254/24 directly on my compute instances, so those EC2 
>>>>> instances basically become a part of my broadcast domain over the VLAN on 
>>>>> Megaport, and I can control data in/out of those instances.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I'm fairly fresh to AWS so not entirely sure the correct way to go about 
>>>>> it through the route tables, VPCs etc - is what I'm asking for relatively 
>>>>> easy and possible?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Joe
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