[Xorp-users] Multicast over GRE tunnel with Xorp.

Vladimir Glafirov vglafirov at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 14:22:24 PDT 2011


On 9/23/2011 6:14 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 09/23/2011 05:32 AM, Vladimir Glafirov wrote:
>> On 09/22/2011 09:51 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
>>> On 09/21/2011 04:48 AM, Vladimir Glafirov wrote:
>>>> Dear Xorp users.
>>>>
>>>> I am really new in Linux routing.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to setup multicast routing through GRE tunnel on RHEL5
>>>> (2.6.18 kernel) with xorp.
>>>
>>> Someone just opened a bug with some good details. Seems
>>> GRE tunnels have their IPs messed up by xorp for some reason.
>>>
>>> http://www.xorp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102
>>>
>>> Can you check to see if your system shows similar
>>> symptoms?
>>
>> Ben.
>>
>> Yes. I've also noticed same behavior of xorp 1.8.3 with GRE tunnel. 
>> Could it be fixed?
>
> I'm pretty sure I can fix it quickly, but first I have to reproduce
> it on a machine I can debug on.  If someone has some scripts to set up
> a GRE tunnel between two linux boxes, please post them...

Hi Ben.

I used ifcfg scripts to create GRE tunnel on my RedHat machine:

--- /etc/sysconfig/network-scripst/ifcfg-tun0 --
DEVICE=tun0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=GRE
PEER_OUTER_IPADDR=172.18.172.31
PEER_INNER_IPADDR=192.168.2.1
MY_INNER_IPADDR=192.168.1.1
-----------------------------------------------------------


Thank you in advance.
Vladimir.

>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Vladimir.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ben
>>>
>
>



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