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Network Warrior
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Network Warrior

by Gary A. Donahue
June 2007
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
18h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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GRE and Access Lists

GRE is a protocol on the same level as TCP and UDP. When configuring a firewall to allow GRE, you do not configure a port like you would for telnet or SSH. Instead, you must configure the firewall to allow protocol 47. Cisco routers offer the keyword gre when configuring access lists:

R1(config)#access-list 101 permit ?
  <0-255>  An IP protocol number
  ahp      Authentication Header Protocol
  eigrp    Cisco's EIGRP routing protocol
  esp      Encapsulation Security Payload
  gre      Cisco's GRE tunneling
  icmp     Internet Control Message Protocol
  igmp     Internet Gateway Message Protocol
  igrp     Cisco's IGRP routing protocol
  ip       Any Internet Protocol
  ipinip   IP in IP tunneling
  nos      KA9Q NOS compatible IP over IP tunneling
  ospf     OSPF routing protocol
  pcp      Payload Compression Protocol
  pim      Protocol Independent Multicast
  tcp      Transmission Control Protocol
  udp      User Datagram Protocol

PIX firewalls also support the keyword gre:

PIX(config)#access-list In permit gre host 10.10.10.10 host 20.20.20.20

The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) uses GRE, so if you're using this protocol for VPN access, you will need to allow GRE on your firewall.

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