Re: [44net] Linux GRE Tunnels

I'm running into an interesting problem I thought maybe someone in this community would have run into before. We're working on a project to redesign and re-IP our entire radio network. Part of the goal is to stop using OpenVPN and IPSec tunnels (long story) and move exclusively to GRE-based tunnels. The plan is to have two Linux VPS hosts running at a provider with our 44Net allocation and an IPv6 allocation advertised and then routed into the radio network over GRE tunnels to 3 different locations that are all backhauled together. One of the primary goals is to do dual-stack throughout the network. I have one site setup working perfectly - "gre0". It's passing IPv4 and IPv6 traffic over the GRE tunnel. One *key* point to this is that the GRE connection endpoints are iPv6. IPv4 isn't doable for this connection (again, long story but not an option). When setting up the second GRE tunnel "gre2", nothing would work even though the configuration was the same EXCEPT for the fact that the second GRE tunnel was using IPv4 addresses for the GRE tunnel endpoints. Linux keeps spitting out a very odd error when I try to ping across the tunnel I cannot find reasonably documented anywhere: ip6_tunnel: gre2 xmit: Local address not yet configured! The key was the "ip6_tunnel" part that took me awhile to figure out. After experimenting, I've found that if I have one GRE tunnel using IPv6 endpoints (ip -6 tunnel add gre0 mod ip6gre) and one using IPv4 endpoints (ip tunnel add gre2 mode gre), only the gre0 tunnel will work and the gre2 tunnel seems to believe it's missing an IPv6 address. If I delete the gre0 tunnel, the gre2 tunnel immediately beings working with both IPv4 and IPv6 traversing the GRE. I cannot find any documentation that describes this behavior or why it would be the case. I can't switch to IPIP tunnels because I haven't found a way to do a dual-stack tunnel between the endpoints - seems like you can only do one IPIP tunnel between two endpoint IPs regardless of type (ipip, ipip6, ip6ip6, sit) Anyone have any deep wisdom on GRE tunnels? Jason _________________________________________ 44Net mailing list 44Net(a)mailman.ampr.org https://mailman.ampr.org/mailman/listinfo/44net