encap

Configures encapsulation parameters for the outgoing packets.

Syntax

encap name

no encap name

encap name: Specifies the name of the encap object. The name is restricted to 32 characters. Characters allowed are alpha-numeric, underscore, and dot. Underscore is not allowed as the first character.; The encap name "all" is reserved and cannot be used.

Config mode

Encap config mode

Validations for the command are as follows:

If the same command is executed more than once, the second and subsequent executions are ignored and no error is reported.
If the [no] form of the command is run without the configuration, the command is ignored and no error is reported.
If the [no] form of the command is executed with the configuration, all sub-mode configurations are removed along with the encap object.
The following reserved keywords cannot be used as name identifiers: all, ingress-group, egress, egress-group, match, list, access-list, route-map, and listener-policy.

Table 1. Error messages
Message	Reason
`Error: encap name identifier must start with an alphabetic character or an underscore.`	Encap name begins with non-alphabetic character or does not begin with an underscore.
`Error: encap name identifier cannot exceed 64 characters`	Encap name is longer than 64 characters.
`Error: encap name identifier must be an arbitrary sequence of alphabets, numerals, underscores, hyphens or dots.`	Encap name contains invalid characters.
`Error: encap name identifier must not be reserved keyword "encap".`	Encap name includes the reserved word encap

The following example configures encapsulation parameters for encap-1.

device(config)# encap encap-1
device(config-encap-1)#

Show running:
device# show running-configuration

encap encap-1