1. REST API for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute Classic
  2. Tasks
  3. IPNetworks

Update an IP Network

put

/network/v1/ipnetwork/{name}

You can update an IP network and change the specified IP address prefix for the network after you've created the network and attached instances to it. However, when you change an IP address prefix, it could cause the IP addresses currently assigned to existing instances to fall outside the specified IP network. If this happens, all traffic to and from those vNICs will be dropped.

If the IP address of an instance is dynamically allocated, stopping the instance orchestration and restarting it will reassign a valid IP address from the IP network to the instance.

However, if the IP address of an instance is static - that is, if the IP address is specified in the instance orchestration while creating the instance - then the IP address can't be updated by stopping the instance orchestration and restarting it. You would have to manually update the orchestration to assign a valid IP address to the vNIC attached to that IP network.

It is therefore recommended that if you update an IP network, you only expand the network by specifying the same IP address prefix but with a shorter prefix length. For example, you can expand 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.1.0/20. Don't, however, change the IP address. This ensures that all IP addresses that have been currently allocated to instances remain valid in the updated IP network.

Required Role: To complete this task, you must have the Compute_Operations role. If this role isn't assigned to you or you're not sure, then ask your system administrator to ensure that the role is assigned to you in Oracle Cloud My Services. See Modifying User Roles in Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud.

Request

Supported Media Types
Path Parameters
  • The three-part name (/Compute-identity_domain/user/object) of the IP network.
Header Parameters
Body ()
The request body contains details of the IP network that you want to update.
Root Schema : IpNetwork-put-request
Type: object
The request body contains details of the IP network that you want to update.
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  • Description of the object.
  • Range of IPv4 addresses assigned in the virtual network, in CIDR address prefix format.

    You can expand the network by specifying the same IP address prefix but with a shorter prefix length. For example, you can expand 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.1.0/20. Don't, however, change the IP address. This ensures that all IP addresses that have been currently allocated to instances remain valid in the updated IP network.

  • Specify the three-part name of the IP network exchange to which you want to add the IP network. You can add an IP network to only one IP network exchange, but an IP network exchange can include multiple IP networks. An IP network exchange enables access between IP networks that have non-overlapping addresses, so that instances on these networks can exchange packets with each other without NAT.
  • Specify the three-part name (/Compute-identity_domain/user/object) of the IP network that you want to update.

    Object names can contain only alphanumeric, underscore (_), dash (-), and period (.) characters. Object names are case-sensitive.

  • tags
    Tags associated with the object.
Nested Schema : tags
Type: array
Tags associated with the object.
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Response

Supported Media Types

200 Response

OK. See Status Codes for information about other possible HTTP status codes.
Headers
Body ()
Root Schema : IpNetwork-response
Type: object
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Nested Schema : tags
Type: array
Tags associated with the object.
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Examples

cURL Command

The following example shows how to update <a/an resource>, /Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipnet1, by submitting a PUT request on the REST resource using cURL. For more information about cURL, see Use cURL.

Enter the command on a single line. Line breaks are used in this example for readability.

curl -i -X PUT
     -H "Cookie: $COMPUTE_COOKIE"
     -H "Content-Type: application/oracle-compute-v3+json"
     -H "Accept: application/oracle-compute-v3+json"
     -d "@requestbody.json"
        https://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com/network/v1/ipnetwork/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipnet1

  • COMPUTE_COOKIE is the name of the variable in which you stored the authentication cookie earlier. For information about retrieving the authentication cookie and storing it in a variable, see Authentication.

  • api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com is an example REST endpoint URL. Change this value to the REST endpoint URL of your Compute Classic site. For information about finding out REST endpoint URL for your site, see Send Requests.

  • acme and jack.jones@example.com are example values. Replace acme with the identity domain ID of your Compute Classic account, and jack.jones@example.com with your user name.

Example of Request Body

The following shows an example of the request body content in the requestbody.json file to update the IP address prefix of /Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipnet1 and associate the IP network with the IP network exchange, /Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipNetworkExchange1. 

{
  "name": "/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipnet1",
  "ipAddressPrefix": "192.168.7.0/16",
  "ipNetworkExchange": "/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipNetworkExchange1"
}

Example of Response Body

The following example shows the response body in JSON format when you update an IP network exchange.

{
  "name": "/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipnet1",
  "uri": "https://api-z999.compute.us0.oraclecloud.com:443/network/v1/ipnetwork/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipnet1",
  "description": null,
  "tags": [],
  "ipAddressPrefix": "192.168.7.0/16",
  "ipNetworkExchange": "/Compute-acme/jack.jones@example.com/ipNetworkExchange1"
}
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