RFC 8086: GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation

This document specifies a method of encapsulating network protocol packets within GRE and UDP headers. This GRE-in-UDP encapsulation allows the UDP source…

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Outgoing relationships (22 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 6347: Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2
Normative reference — RFC 2784: Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Normative reference — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Normative reference — RFC 2890: Key and Sequence Number Extensions to GRE
Normative reference — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Normative reference — RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Normative reference — RFC 6438: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in Tunnels
Normative reference — RFC 6935: IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4787: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP
Informative reference — RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles
Informative reference — RFC 2983: Differentiated Services and Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 6056: Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization
Informative reference — RFC 7042: IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters
Informative reference — RFC 7637: NVGRE: Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation
Informative reference — RFC 7676: IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9634: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Deterministic Networking (DetNet) with the IP Data Plane
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8085: UDP Usage Guidelines
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8926: Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8799: Limited Domains and Internet Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9305: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Generic Protocol Extension