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38.Dd September 13, 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 ,
48.Tn WCCPv1 ,
49and
50.Tn MobileIP
51are enabled with the following
52.Xr sysctl 3
53variables respectively in
54.Pa /etc/sysctl.conf :
55.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
56.It net.inet.gre.allow
57Allow GRE packets in and out of the system.
58.It net.inet.gre.wccp
59Allow WCCPv2-style GRE packets into the system (depends on the above).
60.It net.inet.mobileip.allow
61Allow MobileIP packets in and out of the system.
62.El
63.Sh DESCRIPTION
64The
65.Nm
66network interface allows tunnel construction using the Cisco GRE or
67the Mobile-IP (RFC 2004) encapsulation protocols.
68.Pp
69This driver currently supports the following modes of operation:
70.Bl -tag -width abc
71.It GRE encapsulation (IP protocol number 47).
72Encapsulated datagrams are prepended by an outer datagram and a GRE header.
73The GRE header specifies the type of the encapsulated datagram
74and thus allows for tunneling other protocols than IP like
75e.g. AppleTalk.
76GRE mode is the default tunnel mode on Cisco routers.
77This is also the default mode of operation of the
78.Sy gre Ns Ar X
79interfaces.
80.It MOBILE encapsulation (IP protocol number 55).
81Datagrams are encapsulated into IP, but with a much smaller
82encapsulation header.
83This protocol only supports IP in IP encapsulation, and is intended
84for use with mobile IP.
85.El
86.Pp
87The network interfaces are named
88.Sy gre Ns Ar 0 ,
89.Sy gre Ns Ar 1 ,
90etc.
91The number of interfaces is given by the corresponding
92.Sy pseudo-device
93line in the system config file.
94.Xr gre 4
95interfaces support the following
96.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s :
97.Bl -tag -width aaa
98.It GRESADDRS:
99Set the IP address of the local tunnel end.
100.It GRESADDRD:
101Set the IP address of the remote tunnel end.
102.It GREGADDRS:
103Query the IP address that is set for the local tunnel end.
104.It GREGADDRD:
105Query the IP address that is set for the remote tunnel end.
106.It GRESPROTO:
107Set the operation mode to the specified IP protocol value.
108The protocol is passed to the interface in (struct ifreq)->ifr_flags.
109The operation mode can also be given as
110.Bl -tag -width bbb
111.It link0
112IPPROTO_GRE
113.It -link0
114IPPROTO_MOBILE
115.El
116.It GREGPROTO:
117Query operation mode.
118.El
119.Pp
120Note that the IP addresses of the tunnel endpoints may be the same as the
121ones defined with
122.Xr ifconfig 8
123for the interface (as if IP is encapsulated), but need not be, as e.g. when
124encapsulating AppleTalk.
125.Sh EXAMPLES
126Configuration example:
127.Bd -literal
128
129
130Host X-- Host A  ----------------tunnel---------- Cisco D------Host E
131          \\                                          |
132           \\                                        /
133             +------Host B----------Host C----------+
134
135.Ed
136On Host A (OpenBSD):
137.Bd -literal -offset indent
138# route add default B
139# ifconfig greN A D netmask 0xffffffff linkX up
140# ifconfig greN tunnel A D
141# route add E D
142.Ed
143.Pp
144On Host D (Cisco):
145.Bd -literal -offset indent
146Interface TunnelX
147 ip unnumbered D   ! e.g. address from Ethernet interface
148 tunnel source D   ! e.g. address from Ethernet interface
149 tunnel destination A
150ip route C <some interface and mask>
151ip route A mask C
152ip route X mask tunnelX
153.Ed
154.Pp
155OR
156.Pp
157On Host D (OpenBSD):
158.Pp
159.Bd -literal -offset indent
160# route add default C
161# ifconfig greN D A
162# ifconfig greN tunnel D A
163.Ed
164.Pp
165To reach Host A over the tunnel (from host D), there has to be an
166alias on Host A for the Ethernet interface:
167.Dl ifconfig <etherif> alias Y
168and on the Cisco
169.Dl ip route Y mask tunnelX
170.Sh NOTE
171For correct operation, the
172.Nm
173device needs a route to the destination, that is less specific than the
174one over the tunnel.
175(There needs to be a route to the decapsulating host that
176does not run over the tunnel, as this would create a loop.)
177.Pp
178In order for
179.Xr ifconfig 8
180to actually mark the interface as up, the keyword ``up'' must be given
181last on its command line.
182.Pp
183The kernel must be set to forward datagrams by including option
184``GATEWAY'' in the kernel config file and issuing the appropriate
185option to
186.Xr sysctl 8 .
187.Pp
188The GRE interface will accept WCCPv1-style GRE encapsulated packets
189from a Cisco router.
190Some magic with the packet filter configuration
191and a caching proxy like squid are needed to do anything useful with
192these packets.
193.Sh SEE ALSO
194.Xr atalk 4 ,
195.Xr inet 4 ,
196.Xr ip 4 ,
197.Xr netintro 4 ,
198.Xr options 4 ,
199.Xr protocols 5 ,
200.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
201.Xr sysctl 8
202.Pp
203A description of GRE encapsulation can be found in RFC 1701, RFC 1702.
204.Pp
205A description of MOBILE encapsulation can be found in RFC 2004.
206.Pp
207A description of WCCPv1 can be found in draft-ietf-wrec-web-pro-00.txt,
208and WCCPv2 in draft-wilson-wrec-wccp-v2-00.txt.
209Both of these documents
210can be found at http://www.wrec.org/ (at the time of this writing).
211.Sh AUTHORS
212.An Heiko W.Rupp Aq hwr@pilhuhn.de
213.Sh BUGS
214The compute_route() code in
215.Pa net/if_gre.c
216toggles the last bit of the IP-address to provoke the search for a less
217specific route than the one directly over the tunnel to prevent loops.
218This is possibly not the best solution.
219.Pp
220To avoid the address munging described above, turn on the link1 flag
221on the ifconfig command line.
222This implies that the GRE packet destination and the remote host are not
223the same IP addresses, and that the GRE destination does not route over
224the
225.Sy gre Ns Ar X
226interface itself.
227.Pp
228GRE RFC not yet fully implemented (no GRE options).
229.Pp
230For the WCCP GRE encapsulated packets we can only reliably accept
231WCCPv1 format; WCCPv2 formatted packets add another header which will
232skew the decode, and results are not defined (i.e. don't do WCCPv2).
233