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RFC 8086: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation

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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.

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Document ID
RFC8086
Published
March 2017
Authors
L. Yong; E. Crabbe; X. Xu; T. Herbert
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
wit
Pages
27
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