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BGP Question followup - packet fragmentation through GRE tunnels

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roisman, Dani)
Mon Feb 12 16:24:57 2001

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From: "Roisman, Dani" <DRoisman@station.sony.com>
To: "'nanog@majordomo.merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:17:12 -0800
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I've gotten a few suggestions that included creating a GRE tunnel between
sites, but shouldn't I be concerned about packet fragmentation?

----
Dani Roisman
droisman@station.sony.com

> -----Original Message-----

> Another alternative would be to build your own backbone -- 
> but make it a
> logical backbone if a physical one is not possible or 
> desired.  You can use
> a GRE tunnel to logically connect the two networks.  


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