[c-nsp] IP GRE tunnel up/down

[Drew Weaver]

Howdy,

I am trying to establish a GRE/IP tunnel over the Internet:

interface Tunnel1
description GRE-Tunnel
ip unnumbered GigabitEthernet7/0/0
no ip directed-broadcast
tunnel source Loopback1
tunnel destination x.x.x.x
end

Pretty much no matter what I do the interface status is always:

Tunnel1 is up, line protocol is down

I've read that tunnels should be up/up unless you are using keepalives and it detects a failure.

Does anyone have any insight they can share on this?

thanks,
-Drew