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== Use cases ==
 1. 3G backup on router. The 3G link only provides a single IP on provider network, to route subnets, setup a GRE tunnel with the 3G ip as source to a central router.

GRE - Generic Routing Encapsulation

  • Links IpSec

  • GRE - is a tunneling protocol, works on Linux and Cisco, it provides no security. Security can be added with IpSec.

  • GRE keepalives use tunnel source and destination addresses not the GRE tunnel IP
    • Important when using gre with vrf as src/dest

Use cases

  1. 3G backup on router. The 3G link only provides a single IP on provider network, to route subnets, setup a GRE tunnel with the 3G ip as source to a central router.

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gre (last edited 2015-07-04 23:27:39 by PieterSmit)