Re: I'm missing 2 bytes (GRE implementation)

[sfouant at shortestpathfirst.net (Stefan Fouant)]

Everything from checksums, keys,  and sequence numbers is optional. The only required fields IIRC amount to 2 bytes of overhead.  Sounds like they both interpret what should be included in the GRE header slightly differently.

Stefan Fouant
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From: "Franck Martin" <fmartin at linkedin.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 9, 2011 5:57 pm
Subject: I'm missing 2 bytes (GRE implementation)
To: "nanog at nanog.org" <nanog at nanog.org>

I'm using a GRE IPv4 tunnel between a cisco and linux machines

I did some packet capture, and saw that my MTU was 1418, but the cisco was sending TCP packet with a MSS of 1380. This created a bunch of issues. When I told the cisco box to use a MSS of 1378 everything starting to work fine.

So why Cisco is off by 2 Bytes?

Does the GRE implementation on Linux uses 2 extra bytes compared to Cisco (or vice versa)?