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GRE

anitachoi3
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Hi,

What is the different between GRE and Tunnel?

rdgs

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Steve Lyons
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GRE is a tunnel. There are many types of tunnels. For example there are also MPLS Traffic Engineering Tunnels.

Steve Lyons - Cisco

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Hi,

GRE is a tunneling protocol. It encapsulates other protocols,(AKA IP,IPV6,IPX) into IP protocols. GRE makes the point-to-point link for you. One thing to remember,GRE doesn't encrypt anything for you.

HTH,

Thot

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Steve Lyons
Level 1
Level 1

GRE is a tunnel. There are many types of tunnels. For example there are also MPLS Traffic Engineering Tunnels.

Steve Lyons - Cisco

Hi,

GRE is a tunneling protocol. It encapsulates other protocols,(AKA IP,IPV6,IPX) into IP protocols. GRE makes the point-to-point link for you. One thing to remember,GRE doesn't encrypt anything for you.

HTH,

Thot

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