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GRE tunnels

d-garnett
Level 3
Level 3

we have a hub site and a few remote sites

we route IPX traffic over a medium that is dropping IPX traffic sporadically, although IP is fine. I am thinking about deploying gre tunnels between the central and remote sites. There will be3 tunnels on the hub router.

I have seen config examples where the tunnel source was the LAN interface and other configs where the tunnel source is the WAN interface. What is the difference? I was thinking of using the 1 LAN interface as the tunnel source to all remote tunnel endpoints, is it possible to use the LAN interface as the tunnel source more than once?

ie

int tunnel 0

ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

tunnel source eth0 <---

tunnel dest 172.16.1.1

ipx network CC

int tunnel 1

ip address 10.1.2.1 255.255.255.0

tunnel source eth0 <---

tunnel dest 172.16.2.1

ipx network DD

int tunnel 2

ip address 10.1.3.1 255.255.255.0

tunnel source eth0 <---

tunnel dest 172.16.3.1

ipx network EE

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thisisshanky
Level 11
Level 11

It shouldnt be a problem. Tunnel source commands, says ...the router to use the ip address of the lan interface as the source ip address of the tunnel packet. It shouldnt be a problem running this, as long as the interface is active.

Sankar Nair
UC Solutions Architect
Pacific Northwest | CDW
CCIE Collaboration #17135 Emeritus
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