# Connect a LAN to a Cross Connect

To associate a Cross Connect with your VDC and the configured private LAN, you can perform the following API calls:

* `POST` creates a LAN and connects it to a Cross Connect in a single API call.
* `PUT` or `PATCH` can be used to update the corresponding `/lan` resource.

## Request

The following is an example of a `PUT` operation:

```bash
curl --location 
--request PUT 'https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/datacenters/{datacenter_UUID}/lans/2' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic <auth-token>' \
--data '{    
    "properties": {        
        "pcc": "2e136690-1169-424f-ac4e-ead3fc02292b"    
                  }
        }'
```

## Response

**202 Successful operation**

```json
{
    "id": "2",
    "type": "lan",
    "href": "https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/datacenters/{datacenter_UUID}/lans/2",
    "metadata": {
        "etag": "d0f9c52b979bfe779e9368ca303bab88",
        "createdDate": "2023-09-11T12:00:35Z",
        "createdBy": "xyz@ionos.com",
        "createdByUserId": "0ea7c8-fd97-48ce-a375-6b2c38",
        "lastModifiedDate": "2023-09-20T11:48:03Z",
        "lastModifiedBy": "xyz@ionos.com",
        "lastModifiedByUserId": "0ea7c8-fd97-48ce-a375-6398fb",
        "state": "BUSY"
    },
    "properties": {
        "name": "LANCC",
        "ipFailover": [],
        "pcc": "2690-1169-424f-ac4e-222b",
        "ipv6CidrBlock": null,
        "public": false
    },
    "entities": {
        "nics": {
            "id": "2/nics",
            "type": "collection",
            "href": "https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/datacenters/{datacenter_UUID}/lans/2/nics"
        }
    }
}
```

For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Create LANs</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/#tag/LANs/operation/datacentersLansPost) and [<mark style="color:blue;">Partially modify LANs</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/#tag/LANs/operation/datacentersLansPatch).