Gre Tunnels - Motorola WiNG 5.7.1 System Reference Manual

13.3.21 GRE Tunnels

Access Point Statistics
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) is one of the available tunneling mechanisms which uses IP as the transport protocol and
can be used for carrying many different passenger protocols. The tunnels behave as virtual point-to-point links that have two
endpoints identified by the tunnel source and tunnel destination addresses at each endpoint.
To review a selected access point's GRE statistics:
1. Select the Statistics
2. Select System
connected access points.
3. Select GRE Tunnels.
The access point
GRE State
Peer IP Address
Tunnel Id
Total Packets
Received
Total Packets Sent
Total Packets
Dropped
menu from the Web UI.
from the navigation pane (on the left-hand side of the screen). Expand a RF Domain and select one of its
Figure 13-69 Access Point - GRE Tunnels screen
GRE Tunnels screen displays the following:
Displays the current operational state of the GRE tunnel.
Displays the IP address of the peer device on the remote end of the GRE tunnel.
Displays the session ID of an established GRE tunnel. This ID is only viable while the tunnel is
operational.
Displays the total number of packets received from a peer at the remote end of the GRE tunnel.
Displays the total number of packets sent from this access point to a peer at the remote end
of the GRE tunnel.
Lists the number of packets dropped from tunneled exchanges between this access point and
a peer at the remote end of the VPN tunnel
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