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Generic Routing Encapsulation is a tunnelling protocol, used to carry network layer protocols through encapsulation inside others.

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GRE Source IP Spoofing

The original RFC 1701 GRE allows for a sequence number, and attacker in the situation you describe would need to know what that is. TCP has something similar with a sequence number. … The following RFC 2784 GRE eliminated the sequence number, but it was updated by RFC 2890, Key and Sequence Number Extensions to GRE that specifies a key and sequence number for GRE that would be necessary …
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Is a GRE tunnel sensitive to packet loss?

A tunnel itself is just wrapping packets inside an outer packet as the payload of the outer packet. If the link which the tunnel packets cross is losing traffic, having a tunnel is no better than not …
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Cisco IPSec questions on loopback0 and phase 2

There are many reasons for having a loopback interface. Primarily, loopback interfaces never go down. This is useful for things like routing protocols or tunnels that may have more than one way into …
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Site-to-Site VPN tunnel configuration

You could use a GRE tunnel inside that type of tunnel to overcome this, or use a different tunnel type that supports the features you need to support. …
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Splitting Data and Voice by creating GRE tunnel for Data, using overhead for Voice

You are going to need a router on each end of the link if you use GRE. In that case, you should use layer-3 links. …
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Why specify the source tunnel address?

Often, you may want to use a loopback, since it will never go down, as the source because you may have a backup path to the other end. It is not always the right thing to do to use the exit interface …
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How would "looping" in GRE occur according to RFC 2784

If the de-encapsulating router has a route for the un-encapsulated destination address going back to the encapsulating router, you will get a loop that only expires when the TTL expires. This is an en …
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More Fragment flag and Frag Offset field after GRE fragmentation

each fragment within a complete GRE header and GRE delivery header. … When the GRE egress node receives a GRE delivery packet fragment, it silently discards the fragment without attempting to reassemble the GRE delivery packet to which the fragment belongs. …
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Network Security Tunnel

FYI, GRE is not secure. You would need to use a tunnel that does encryption for a secure tunnel. …
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Can a VPN tunnel between routers be built with different tunnel protocol on both ends?

GRE inside IPsec. …
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