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RFC 8086
Title: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation
Author: L. Yong, Ed.,
E. Crabbe,
X. Xu,
T. Herbert
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2017
Mailbox: lucy.yong@huawei.com,
edward.crabbe@gmail.com,
xuxiaohu@huawei.com,
tom@herbertland.com
Pages: 27
Characters: 58743
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tsvwg-gre-in-udp-encap-19.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8086
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8086
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.
This document is a product of the Transport Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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