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GRE Tunnel questions

Yannick Vranckx
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Hello,

I have a few trivial questions about GRE tunneling, more from an architectural point of view.

Say i have 2 sites: Site A and Site B

Site A  ---- A Router ---Internet----- B Router ----- Site B

In this topology i have a single link between the 2 routers with 2 public ip's. I can make a tunnel interface with the source and destination of my physical interfaces. But i cannot make more GRE tunnel interfaces because the source and destination would then overlap right?

Site A  ---- A Router ---Internet----- B Router ----- Site B

In another topology the Internet is an MPLS circuit provided by an ISP, so the transport is layer 2. In this scenario i could make multiple sub interfaces and have a tunnel with them to separate specific types of traffic? So if the interface to the MPLS would be Gi0/0, i can make Gi0/0.10 for with an ip on Site A and one on Site B. Here i can also create a tunnel interface and source/destination this tunnel with the ip addresses on the interfaces. Here i can make more tunnels to have more separation between traffic types because i can make another sub interface?

The end goal would be to have 2 sites and have separate parts of traffic going across a link between them, the traffic needs to be separated from each other, so on my routers i would need VRF support so i can segregate it completely.

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Reza Sharifi
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Hi,

Your typologies should work as you explained them.  In the first scenario, you are limited by the number of public IP addresses you have given by your provider.

As for the second scenario, since it is MPLS and private, you can use private IPs and should be able to use as many addresses as you need.

If you want to put them in a separate VRFs, make sure the device support it and has the correct license.

HTH