GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 27
Abstract: This document specifies a method of encapsulating network protocol packets within GRE and UDP headers. This GRE-in-UDP encapsulation allows the UDP source port field to be used as an entropy field. This may be used for load-balancing of GRE traffic in transit networks using existing Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) mechanisms. There are two applicability scenarios for GRE-in-UDP with different requirements: (1) general Internet and (2) a traffic-managed controlled environment. The controlled environment has less restrictive requirements than the general Internet.
Publication Date: 2017-03-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8086
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8086
Author(s): Lucy Yong
Edward Crabbe
Xiaohu Xu
Tom Herbert

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