Networking

101 Release Notes

Introducing IP Address Insights

Gain a comprehensive understanding of IP addresses utilized within your tenancy and easily discover all resources spanning multiple compartments. Using IP Address Insights, get insights into IP address utilization to optimize network resource allocation and identify underused resources.

For more information, see IP Address Insights.

FastConnect Partner Provisioning

The FastConnect partner-side provisioning process for virtual circuits with the Megaport and Colt partners is now more streamlined. You can ...

BYOIP Now Includes IPv6

Oracle can now support multiple IPv6 prefixes for use within a VCN.

When you enable IPv6 on a VCN, ...

New FastConnect Options

Users of Oracle FastConnect now have an easy way to tear down and re-establish a BGP peering session over their ...

IPSec Tunnel Customizations

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: November 30, 2021

IPSec tunnels in Site-to-Site VPN can now be customized in the following ways:

  • Custom phase 1 and phase ...

Encryption on Fastconnect

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: November 17, 2021

FastConnect using colocation or a third-party provider can now be configured to support MACsec encryption. For more details, refer to ...

Network Visualizer 2.0

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: November 16, 2021

This update of the Network Visualizer service extends the granularity of the visualization to see within subnets, and adds the ...

Network Visualizer updates

This update of the Network Visualizer service introduces the visualization for DRGv2 capabilities in the regional view covering the following ...

Outbound SMTP is blocked

Tenancies made after June 23, 2021 are by default not allowed to send e-mail via outbound TCP port 25 to ...

Expanded DRG functionality

DRG functionality has been expanded to include the following capabilities:

  • You can attach a DRG to more than ...

IPv6 general availability

We are pleased to announce general availability for IPv6 addressing. Going forward Oracle will assign a /56 IPv6 CIDR for ...

Bring Your Own IP

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: September 30, 2020

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now allows you to Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) address space to use with resources in Oracle ...

CPE Configuration Helper

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: March 03, 2020
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

For customers using VPN Connect (a site-to-site VPN connection to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure):

The Oracle Console has a new ...

Connectivity redundancy remedies

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: January 21, 2020

For customers who use FastConnect or VPN Connect for connectivity between your on-premises network and VCN:

The Oracle Console ...

Virtual networking quickstart

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: December 04, 2019

There's a new "VCN with Internet Connectivity" wizard in the Oracle Console. The wizard quickly sets up a VCN with ...

Transit routing through a private IP

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: July 08, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The advanced VCN routing scenario called transit routing now also supports the ability to route through a private IP address ...

VPN Connect quickstart workflow

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: June 18, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

The Oracle Console now includes a VPN Connect workflow to help you quickly set up an IPSec connection between your ...

Access to Microsoft Azure

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: June 07, 2019
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Oracle and Microsoft have created a cross-cloud connection between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure in certain regions. This connection ...

Transit routing

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: November 15, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can implement an advanced VCN routing scenario called transit routing. It enables communication between an on-premises network and ...

NAT gateway

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: October 04, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now add a NAT gateway to your VCN to perform Network Address Translation (NAT). A NAT gateway gives ...

Windows secondary VNICs on certain shapes

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: May 31, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Certain Windows instance shapes now support secondary VNICs. For more information and a script for configuring Windows to recognize a ...

Public IPs

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: January 24, 2018
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now create reserved public IPs, and move them between your instances in a given region. You can ...

Easy VCN deletion

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: November 06, 2017

The Console now supports a VCN "Delete All" function that lets you click one button to delete a VCN, its ...

Local VCN peering

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: November 06, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can connect two VCNs in the same region so their resources can communicate without routing the traffic over the ...

VCN IP address ranges

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: July 06, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

You can now create a VCN using any valid IP address range. Oracle recommends using one of the private IP ...

Private subnets

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: May 03, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

When creating a subnet, you can designate it as private, which means instances in the subnet cannot have public IP ...

FastConnect

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: April 20, 2017
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918

Your existing network and VCN can communicate over a private connection that doesn't traverse the internet. For more information, see ...

Networking service API updates

  • Services: Networking
  • Release Date: October 17, 2016
  • API Versions Affected: 20160918
  • Ability to update object names: When you create a Networking object (for example, VCN, subnet, etc.), you can optionally ...