[c-nsp] Cisco Catalyst 3750s and GRE

Deepak Jain deepak at ai.net
Tue Apr 12 18:38:27 EDT 2005


The 3750s will do GRE, but they do it in their CPU and you get pretty 
low thruput before hitting 100% CPU on them. I would say <4000 pps IIRC.

DJ

Stevens, Brant I. wrote:
> All,
>  
> I would like to terminate multiple GRE tunnels on a Catalyst 3750 for
> use with OSPF dynamic routing over IPSec tunnels (encryption handled
> elsewhere).  Based on a quick Google, it appears that GRE interfaces are
> not supported on the 3750, but I wanted to see if anyone else had
> real-world experience with this actually working despite my preliminary
> findings.
>  
> If it can be done without using CEF, that is fine, but of course, I'd
> like to use that path whenever possible.
>  
> Regards,
> Brant.
> 
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