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38.Dd 13 September 1998
39.Dt GRE 4
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm gre
43.Nd encapsulating network device
44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Cd pseudo-device gre Op Ar count
46.Sh NOTE
47.Tn GRE
48and
49.Tn MobileIP
50are enabled with the following
51.Xr sysctl 3
52variables respectively in
53.Pa /etc/sysctl.conf :
54.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
55.It net.inet.gre.allow
56Allow GRE packets in and out of the system.
57.It net.inet.mobileip.allow
58Allow MobileIP packets in and out of the system.
59.El
60.Sh DESCRIPTION
61The
62.Nm
63network interface allows tunnel construction using the Cisco GRE or
64the Mobile-IP (RFC 2004) encapsulation protocols.
65.Pp
66This driver currently supports the following modes of operation:
67.Bl -tag -width abc
68.It GRE encapsulation (IP protocol number 47).
69Encapsulated datagrams are prepended by a outer datagram and a GRE header.
70The GRE header specifies the type of the encapsulated datagram
71and thus allows for tunneling other protocols than IP like
72e.g. AppleTalk (not yet supported).
73GRE mode is the default tunnel mode on Cisco routers.
74This is also the default mode of operation of the
75.Sy gre Ns Ar X
76interfaces.
77.It MOBILE encapsulation (IP protocol number 55).
78Datagrams are encapsulated into IP, but with a much smaller
79encapsulation header.
80This protocol only supports IP in IP encapsulation, and is intended
81for use with mobile IP.
82.El
83.Pp
84The network interfaces are named
85.Sy gre Ns Ar 0 ,
86.Sy gre Ns Ar 1 ,
87etc.
88The number of interfaces is given by the corresponding
89.Sy pseudo-device
90line in the system config file.
91.Xr gre 4
92interfaces support the following
93.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s :
94.Bl -tag -width aaa
95.It GRESADDRS:
96Set the IP address of the local tunnel end.
97.It GRESADDRD:
98Set the IP address of the remote tunnel end.
99.It GREGADDRS:
100Query the IP address that is set for the local tunnel end.
101.It GREGADDRD:
102Query the IP address that is set for the remote tunnel end.
103.It GRESPROTO:
104Set the operation mode to the specified IP protocol value.
105The protocol is passed to the interface in (struct ifreq)->ifr_flags.
106The operation mode can also be given as
107.Bl -tag -width bbb
108.It link0
109IPPROTO_GRE
110.It link2
111IPPROTO_MOBILE
112.El
113.Pp
114to
115.Xr ifconfig 8 .
116As the linkN flags are not mutually exclusive, modes must be set by applying
117positive and negative flags, e.g.,
118.Xr ifconfig 8
119link0 -link1 -link2
120.It GREGPROTO:
121Query operation mode.
122.El
123.Pp
124Note that the IP addresses of the tunnel endpoints may be the same as the
125ones defined with
126.Xr ifconfig 8
127for the interface (as if IP is encapsulated), but need not be, as e.g. when
128encapsulating AppleTalk.
129.Sh EXAMPLES
130Configuration example:
131.Bd -literal
132
133
134Host X-- Host A  ----------------tunnel---------- cisco D------Host E
135          \\                                          |
136           \\                                        /
137             +------Host B----------Host C----------+
138
139.Ed
140   On host A (OpenBSD):
141
142   # route add default B
143   # ifconfig greN  A D netmask 0xffffffff linkX up
144   # route add E D
145
146   On Host D (Cisco):
147
148   Interface TunnelX
149    ip unnumbered D   ! e.g. address from Ethernet interface
150    tunnel source D   ! e.g. address from Ethernet interface
151    tunnel destination A
152   ip route C <some interface and mask>
153   ip route A mask C
154   ip route X mask tunnelX
155
156   OR
157
158   On Host D (OpenBSD):
159
160   # route add default C
161   # ifconfig greN D A
162.Pp
163To reach Host A over the tunnel (from host D), there has to be an
164alias on Host A for the Ethernet interface:
165     ifconfig <etherif> alias Y
166 and on the cisco
167     ip route Y mask tunnelX
168.Sh NOTE
169For correct operation, the
170.Nm
171device needs a route to the destination, that is less specific than the
172one over the tunnel.
173(There needs to be a route to the decapsulating host that
174does not run over the tunnel, as this would create a loop.)
175.Pp
176In order for
177.Xr ifconfig 8
178to actually mark the interface as up, the keyword ``up'' must be given
179last on its command line.
180.Pp
181The kernel must be set to forward datagrams by including option
182``GATEWAY'' in the kernel config file and issuing the appropriate
183option to
184.Xr sysctl 8 .
185.Sh SEE ALSO
186.Xr atalk 4 ,
187.Xr inet 4 ,
188.Xr ip 4 ,
189.Xr netintro 4 ,
190.Xr options 4 ,
191.Xr protocols 5 ,
192.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
193.Xr sysctl 8
194.Pp
195A description of GRE encapsulation can be found in RFC 1701, RFC 1702.
196.Pp
197A description of MOBILE encapsulation can be found in RFC 2004.
198.Sh BUGS
199The compute_route() code in net/if_gre.c toggles the last bit of the
200IP-address to provoke the search for a less specific route than the
201one directly over the tunnel to prevent loops.
202This is possibly not the best solution.
203.Pp
204To avoid the address munging described above, turn on the link1 flag
205on the ifconfig command line.
206This implies that the GRE packet destination and the remote host are not
207the same IP addresses, and that the GRE destination does not route over
208the greX interface itself.
209.Pp
210GRE RFC not yet fully implemented (no GRE options), no other protocols
211yet than IP over IP.
212.Sh AUTHORS
213Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de>
214