Gre Tunnel - BEC MX-200A User Manual

Device Configuration
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VPN – GRE

GRE Tunnel

Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) is a tunneling protocol that can encapsulate a wide variety of
network layer protocol packets inside virtual point-to-point links over an IP network.
NOTE: Up to 8 GRE tunnels supported.
Rule Index: The numeric rule indicator for GRE. The maximum entry is up to 8.
Connection Name: Enter a description for this connection/profile.
Active: Yes to activate this GRE profile.
Interface: Select a WAN interface to establish a tunnel with the remote VPN device.
Remote Gateway: Enter the remote GRE WAN IP address.
Tunnel Local IP Address & Remote IP address (Virtual Interface): Enter a virtual IP address for
the local and peer network.
Tunnel Network Netmask (Virtual Interface): Enter the Netmask for this virtual interface.
NOTE: The virtual Local and Remote IP addresses must in same subnet and cannot be existed or used in both
networks.
Remote Network IP Address Netmask: Enter remote LAN network IP address.
Remote Network Netmask: Enter remote LAN network Netmask.
Enable Keep-alive: Check the box to enable the keep-alive. The system will detect remote peer is still
alive or lost. If no responses from the remote peer after certain times, #-of-retry-time x interval, the
connection will get dropped.
Keep-alive Retry Times: Set the keep-alive retry times, default is 3.
Keep-alive Interval: Set the keep-alive Interval, unit in seconds. Default is 5 seconds.
Example: Keepalive retry time (3) x keepalive interval (5) = 15 seconds. If no responses for 15
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