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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

L. Yong, Ed.
E. Crabbe
X. Xu
T. Herbert

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IETF

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tsvwg (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8086

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Abstract

This document specifies a method of encapsulating network protocolpackets within GRE and UDP headers. This GRE-in-UDP encapsulationallows the UDP source port field to be used as an entropy field.This may be used for load-balancing of GRE traffic in transitnetworks using existing Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) mechanisms.There are two applicability scenarios for GRE-in-UDP with differentrequirements: (1) general Internet and (2) a traffic-managedcontrolled environment. The controlled environment has lessrestrictive requirements than the general Internet.

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