[Xorp-hackers] IP-IP/GRE tunnel

[Li Zhao]

The reason I like to configure every thing in xorpsh is I want the xorp behaves more like a cisco router.

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:

> From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xorp-hackers] IP-IP/GRE tunnel
> To: "Li Zhao" <lizhaous2000 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: xorp-hackers at icir.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 12:24 PM
> On 02/24/2010 08:51 AM, Li Zhao
> wrote:
> > Does xorp support IP-IP/GRE tunnel as special
> interfaces? For example,
> > after we configure a tunnel, we can configure a static
> route using this
> > tunnel as egress interface or using destination IP
> address on the tunnel
> > as next-hop. All the configuration should be done on
> xorp cli. I dont want
> > to configure tunnels on Linux command line. Can Linux
> system and windows
> > system form IP-IP/GRE tunnels?
> 
> I don't think it can..you'll need to create them outside of
> xorp
> and then use xorpsh to update xorp configuration.
> 
> The official xorp tree does not always deal well with
> dynamically
> adding/removing interfaces.  I've added a bunch of
> fixes for these
> issues to my tree (since my application deals extensively
> with
> dynamically updating xorp interfaces and such).
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> -- Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
> 
>