Tunnel Key - Cisco ASR 9000 Series Reference Manual

Generic Routing Encapsulation Commands

tunnel key

To configure the key value for packets sent over a tunnel, use the tunnel key command. To delete the configured
key value, use the no form of this command.
tunnel key key-value
no tunnel key key-value
Syntax Description
key-value
Command Default
No value is configured.
Command Modes
interface configuration
Command History
Release
Release 5.1.1
Usage Guidelines
To use this command, you must be in a user group associated with a task group that includes appropriate task
IDs. If the user group assignment is preventing you from using a command, contact your AAA administrator
for assistance.
• GRE tunnel key feature is supported only on Cisco ASR 9000 Enhanced Ethernet line cards. It is
• GRE tunnel keepalive is not supported with tunnel key. If the configuration for the GRE keepalives and
• For a given router, either the same key or different keys can be configured under multiple GRE tunnels.
• Different traffic streams passing through the same GRE tunnel contain the same GRE key configured
Task ID
Task ID
interface
tunnel
Specifies the tunnel key value. Range is from 0 to 4294967295.
mandatory to have ingress and egress line cards as Enhanced Ethernet line cards.
tunnel key are present at the same time, the tunnel is brought down and a warning message is displayed.
for that tunnel.
Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router VPN and Ethernet Services Command Reference, Release
Modification
This command was introduced.
Operation
read, write
read, write

tunnel key

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