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IPSEC over GRE

hclisschennai
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‎02-01-2009 10:41 AM - edited ‎02-21-2020 04:08 PM

<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I want to know the purpose / Need of configuring</p>

<p>1. IPSEC over GRE Tunnel</p>

<p>2. GRE over IPSEC Tunnel.</p>

<p>I donot know what is the purpose of thest two designs.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

<p>R.B.Kumar</p>

<p> </p>

<p> </p>

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victor_87
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‎02-02-2009 03:51 AM

GRE over IPSEC

This is a method in which a GRE tunnel i sencrypted with IPSEC.

The main purpose of this is IPSEC as it is does not support Routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF etc.

Say u have a MAIN office and branch offices. The branch offices were originally connected to the main office using frame-relay or dedicated leased lines and you were happily running routing protocols between them to exchange routing information.

Now u have moved on VPN to cut costs. but unfortunately IPSEC does not support dynamic routing protocols, and GRE supports routing protocols but does not encrypt data.

So we use GRE and encrypt the GRE tunnel with IPSEC so that others on the internet cannot eavesdrop on our routing information.

i do not have any idea about IPSEC over GRE though.

If u have no idea about IPSEC and GRE then U must do some document reading.

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