[AusNOG] GRE BGP Peering

Matt Perkins matt at spectrum.com.au
Tue Jun 17 22:30:04 EST 2014


If you are interested HE do provide IPv6 Tunnels over GRE with BGP. It 
may be of interest for an experimenting point of view.


On 17/06/2014 10:04 pm, Daniel Watson wrote:
> Hi prk,
>
> In my opinion, It is handy if the 2 party's were exchanging ALOT of 
> data back and forth and can be considered a private network between 
> the two
>
> Also possible to exchange IP's from both networks ect
>
> There are alot of useful things you can do on GRE, But I am more 
> looking into this to expand my horizons with BGP :D
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:59 PM, PRK <ausnog at digitaljunkie.net 
> <mailto:ausnog at digitaljunkie.net>> wrote:
>
>     Out of curiosity (thrown out to everyone, not just Daniel), is
>     there a use case for BGP peering over a tunnel?
>
>     Wouldn't it just be introducing CPU and encapsulation overhead to
>     send the traffic via the same path (the tunnel) than it would take
>     anyway, as is used for the tunnel to be set up?
>
>     Or are there particular cases where BGP peering over a tunnel is
>     useful or desirable?
>
>     prk
>
>     On 2014-06-17 21:50, Daniel Watson wrote:
>
>>     Gday Noggers,
>>     I am interested to see whom would be interested in setting up a
>>     GRE tunnel to our Melbourne network and running BGP peering
>>     between each other?
>>     Please reply off-list if you are interested so we don't
>>     inconvenience the rest of the list.
>>     Daniel
>>
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