GRE Up/Down on 192.168.0.0/30

[davidhuynh5]

Attached is a diagram and three router configurations. I am trying to build a gre tunnel from rtr3_ospf to rtr4_ospf.

My tunnel0 on both routers are down and I can not ping the remote address 192.168.0.0/30. Any assistance and insight into why it is not working would be greatly appreciated.

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello David,

you cannot run the same routing protocol inside and outside the tunnel

router ospf 2020

log-adjacency-changes

network 10.16.0.0 0.0.0.3 area 0

network 172.15.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

network 172.15.2.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

network 172.15.3.0 0.0.0.255 area 0

>>>> network 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.3 area 0

!

you need to use a different protocol over the tunnel for example EIGRP or a different OSPF routing process

You are facing a recursive routing error: once the tunnel is up also the tunnel endpoint addresses are advertised over it and this is not good at all

remove the line network 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.3 area 0 on both routers R3 and R4

use a different process like

router ospf 123

network 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.3 area 0

network 192.168.123.3 0.0.0.0 area 0

to see everything is working well you need to advertise at least one IP subnet on each side

in loop3

ip address 192.168.123.3 255.255.255.255

no shut

a similar setup has to be done on R4:

router ospf 123

network 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.3 area 0

network 192.168.123.4 0.0.0.0 area 0

in loop3

ip address 192.168.123.4 255.255.255.255

no shut

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[davidhuynh5]

Hi Giuseppe,

I removed the network statement "network 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.3 area 0" from under the router process id, then shutdown/no shutdown the tunnel interface.

After a few seconds the tunnel interface comes back down again. When I remove the keepalive 10 3, the tunnel comes up. I'm still not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks.

[Giuseppe Larosa · Accepted solution]

Hello David,

>> When I remove the keepalive 10 3, the tunnel comes up. I'm still not sure what I am doing wrong.

not all IOS images or platforms support GRE keepalive you may be using a release that allows you to configure it but it does not support it.

For example in real world you cannot use the above command on a C6500/C7600 they do not support it.

you are using GNS3 so you need to check if the loaded IOS image support GRE keepalive using feature navigator

Hope to help

Giuseppe