Disassociate an EIP from a cloud resource

Overview

This topic describes how to disassociate an elastic IP address (EIP) from a cloud resource. After the EIP is disassociated from the cloud resource, the cloud resource can no longer access the Internet by using the EIP. You are still charged a configuration fee for the EIP.

Procedure

1. On the EIP console page, find the EIP that you want to manage, and click Unbind in the Operation column.
   
2. In the message that appears, click OK.
   
3. After the unbinding is successful, the IP Status updated to Assigned.
   

Note : Force unbinding NAT

When you need to unbind the NAT gateway, make sure to remove the SNAT or DNAT entry associated with the EIP . You can also click Force Unbind NAT in the Action column , the system will automatically delete the SNAT or DNAT entry associated with the EIP , and then unbind the NAT gateway.

• SNAT or DNAT entry for the NAT gateway associated with the EIP.
  
  
• Unbind : Click Unbind , because EIP is associated with SNAT or DNAT , it cannot be directly unbind.
  
• Force unbinding NAT : Click Force unbinding NAT to force unbinding NAT.
  In the message that appears, click OK.
  The system automatically deletes the SNAT or DNAT entry associated with the EIP , and then unbinds the NAT gateway.