DETERMINING AN END POINT OF A GRE TUNNEL

An end point address of a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel is obtained by forwarding a data packet through the GRE tunnel to devices at a multicast address. The data packet includes a logical address of a GRE tunne l end point device. A reply to the data packet is received from a remote GR...

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Hauptverfasser:	SRIKANTH, AYIKUDY, BASIL, NIPUN, MEEHAN, TOM
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre
Schlagworte:	ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Zusammenfassung:	An end point address of a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel is obtained by forwarding a data packet through the GRE tunnel to devices at a multicast address. The data packet includes a logical address of a GRE tunne l end point device. A reply to the data packet is received from a remote GRE tunne l end point device. The reply includes a physical address of the remote GRE tunnel end point device.