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Re: GRE packets


From: "Paul G. Donner" <pdonner () cisco com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:23:57 -0400

At 03:23 PM 6/17/98 -0700, Danny McPherson wrote:

Perhaps to combat this, unless I'm missing something, one could justifiably 
deploy GRE filters with source & destination addresses of the exchange 
subnets.  Filtering GRE in general seems nothing more than foolish.

Or the tunnel termination addresses, which while might be tighter, would
probably make the ACLs longer or more complex.


-danny
[snip] 
(we certainly allow GRE packets and expect everyone else does, too)

This could kill IP-GRE VPNs indiscriminately.





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