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Antonio
Asked: 2012-02-11 02:50:55 +0800 CST

What's the difference between GRE and IPIP tunnel?

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And which one is better for connecting two linux machines?

tunneling ip-routing linux-networking iproute2 gre

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    See http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/tunneling#IPIP_tunnels and the paragraph below.

    Basically it's that IPIP can handle only IPv4 unicast, no multicast traffic and only one tunnel for unique tunnel endpoints pair. GRE is more generic, with up to 64k tunnels between two unique endpoints plus multicast traffic which is important when tunneling routing protocols.

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