Encapsulation
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
headers provide a private secure path for transporting packets.
You can configure outgoing-packets encapsulation with configured tunnel and L2 or L3
parameters. The following L2 and L3 parameter configurations are required for GRE
encapsulation:
- Outer destination MAC address (mandatory)
- Outer source MAC address (mandatory)
- Outer VLAN Tag (optional)
- Outer VLAN PCP (optional)
- Outer Source IPv4 address (mandatory)
- Outer Destination IPv4 address (mandatory)
Note
- Only IPv4 GRE encapsulation is supported in
NPB application.
- Flags in GRE encapsulation header are set to
0.
