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  26. <h1 id="greipsec">GRE+IPsec</h1>
  27. <h2 id="why-gre">Why GRE?</h2>
  28. <ul>
  29. <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRE">GRE</a> provides universal encapsulation on top of IP.</li>
  30. <li>It has a smaller header than UDP.</li>
  31. <li>GRE tunnels are processed in-kernel on *nix systems.</li>
  32. <li>It’s supported by hardware routers.</li>
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  34. <h2 id="why-ipsec">Why IPsec?</h2>
  35. <ul>
  36. <li>GRE provides no encryption and authentication of it’s own.</li>
  37. <li>IPsec in implemented in-kernel on FreeBSD and Linux with multithreaded encryption resulting in a lower latency than userspace VPN daemons using tun/tap interfaces.</li>
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  39. <h2 id="problems-with-gre">Problems with GRE</h2>
  40. <ul>
  41. <li>GRE is defined directly on top of IP.</li>
  42. <li>Broken NAPT implementations will stop GRE tunnels.</li>
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  44. <h2 id="problems-with-ipsec">Problems with IPsec</h2>
  45. <ul>
  46. <li>ESP is defined directly on top of IP.</li>
  47. <li>NAT support was added as an aftertought to IPsec.</li>
  48. <li>IKEv1 is too complex.</li>
  49. <li>Racoon has useless error messages.</li>
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  51. <h2 id="requirements-for-sane-operation">Requirements for sane operation</h2>
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  53. <li>Identify your peers by X.509 certificates</li>
  54. <li>At least one peer should operate his own (Sub-)CA.</li>
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  56. <h2 id="how-to-configure-a-gre-tunnel-on-freebsd">How to configure a GRE tunnel on FreeBSD</h2>
  57. <p>See <a href="/howto/GRE-on-FreeBSD">GRE on FreeBSD</a>.</p>
  58. <h2 id="how-to-configure-ipsec-on-freebsd">How to configure IPsec on FreeBSD</h2>
  59. <p>See <a href="/howto/IPsec-on-FreeBSD">IPsec on FreeBSD</a>.</p>
  60. <h2 id="how-to-configure-gre--ipsec-on-debian">How to configure GRE + IPsec on Debian</h2>
  61. <p>See <a href="/howto/IPsecWithPublicKeys/GRE-plus-IPsec-Debian">GRE + IPsec on Debian</a>.</p>
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