Updating Instance Properties of an existing Google Compute Engine Virtual Machine
Oct 31, 2021
The background When IP forwarding is disabled (default) for a virtual machine instance in the Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud performs strict source and destination checking for packets so that VM instances can only send packets whose sources are set to match an internal IP address of its interface in the network. Also, packets are only delivered to an instance if their destination match the IP address of the instance’s interface in the network.…