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Westermo OS Management Guide
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Chapter 34
GRE tunnels
WeOS supports Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnels for IP over IP encap-
sulation. This chapter describes GRE tunnelling support in WeOS, while informa-
tion on IP related settings of GRE interfaces is found in
chapter 19 .
34.1 Overview of GRE tunnel Properties and Manage-
ment Features
Feature Web CLI General Description
GRE Configuration
Enable/disable GRE tunnel
X X
Tunnel Endpoints X X Sections 34.1.1 , 34.1.2
Tunnel TTL X X Section 34.1.3
Outbound Interface X X Section 34.1.4
GRE Status
Show GRE Tunnel Status
X
34.1.1 Introduction to GRE tunnels
GRE is an encapsulation method for tunnelling data packets over the IP protocol,
and is specified in RFC 2784[
8 ]. GRE can encapsulate arbitrary data packets, but
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