Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) is a tunneling protocol that can encapsulate a number of OSI layer 3 protocols. This protocol can be used by two endpoints to communicate with each other. This protocol is developed by Cisco Systems and it can be used with IPSec to create a VPN. Multipoint GRE (mGRE) is a protocol that can be used to enable one node to communicate with many nodes. In other words, it can be used for point-to-multipoint links using which one node can transmit data to many nodes.
mGRE protocol is often used in Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) which provides the ability to create a dynamic VPN network with multiple sites without having to pre-configure the tunnel end-point peers statically. In this article, we would discuss how the mGRE protocol works.
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