Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

By D. Farinacci, Tony Li, Stan Hanks, D. Meyer, P. Traina. Request for Comments, 2000

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Debugging the data plane with anteater (2011, background): “First, Anteater collects the contents of FIBs from networking equipment through vtys (terminals), SNMP, or control sessions maintained to routers [13, 22].”
A survey of network virtualization (2010, methodology): “It can range from very simple wrapper protocols (e.g. GRE [11], PPTP [12], L2TP [13]) to secure protocols (e.g. IPSec [14]).”
Extending Networking into the Virtualization Layer (2009, background): “Open vSwitch supports both VLANs and GRE tunnels [11].”
A Virtual Honeypot Framework (2004, methodology): “Using GRE tunnels, it is also possible to delegate networks that belong to separate parts of the address space to a single Honeyd host.”
Survey on Network Virtualization Hypervisors for Software Defined Networking (2015, methodology): “DFVisor uses GRE tunneling [187] to slice the data plane and encapsulate the data flows of each slice.”