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Description

A tunnel can be use to encapsulate packets in an IP header for transmitting over IP infrastructure. GRE [RFC2784] is a particular tunnelling protocol supported by Cisco routers which is capable to carry different protocols over IPv4.

Iproute2 Commands

These commands will create an GRE tunnel with iproute2.

ip tunnel add <tunnel_name> mode gre local <local_ip_addr> remote <remote_ip_addr> ttl <0-255>
ip link set <tunnel_name> up
ip address add <tunnel_ip>/<subnet_mask> dev <tunnel_name>