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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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To: Alejandro Ramirez <ales@megared.net.mx>
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Subject: Re: GRE Support in 4.X ???
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I know Archie did some work with GRE
but I can't remember how he did it.
Archie?
(netgraph? or was it int he ppp daemon?)

Julian

Alejandro Ramirez wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>     I Just like to ask if there will be support for GRE in 4.X releases
> (without tunnels implementations), because its needed by wccp protocol
> managed by Squid & Cisco routers, to create Cache Engines, there are some
> patches & files that works in the squid home page, Im using them right now
> with 3.4, and they work great:
> 
> http://www.squid-cache.org/WCCP-support/FreeBSD/gre.patch
> &
> http://www.squid-cache.org/WCCP-support/FreeBSD/gre.c
> 
> but I think it would be nice to see them integrated in to the base system.
> 
> Here it is the Squid description for GRE Support (taken from the webpage):
> 
> FreeBSD first needs to be configured to recieve and strip the GRE
> encapsulation from the packets from the router. To do this you will need to
> patch and recompile your kernel.
> 
> First, a patch needs to be applied to your kernel for GRE support. Apply
> this patch to your 3.1 kernel. If you use a version other than 3.1 it may
> not apply. You will need to manually change the appropriate files.
> 
> Secondly you will need to download gre.c and copy it to
> /usr/src/sys/netinet/gre.c.
> 
> Finally add "OPTION GRE" to your kernel config file and rebuild your kernel.
> Note, the opt_gre.h file is created when you run config. Once your kernel is
> installed you will need to configure FreeBSD for transparent proxying.
> 
> Thanks for your time
> Sincerely
> Ales
> 
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