Tunnels

Tunneling is a communication protocol that is used to transmit data from one network to another by encapsulating the data. A tunnel is a virtual interface. You can create tunnels for both encapsulation and decapsulation.

Required License: Advanced Feature License on GigaVUE TA Series Nodes

This chapter describes about the different types of native tunnels, which are independent of GigaSMART operations. It also describes how to configure these tunnels for encapsulating and decapsulating traffic. Refer to the following sections for details:

■   About Circuit-ID Tunnels
■   About Layer 2 Generic Routing Encapsulation (L2GRE) Tunnels
■   About Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) Tunnels
■   Create Tunnel
■   Create VXLAN / L2GRE Group
■   Configure L2GRE / VXLAN Identifier
■   View VXLAN / L2GRE ID Statistics