Re: GRE tunnels bound to VRF

[Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 10:40:18AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there any (sane) way to tell a GRE tunnel to use a VRF for its
> underlying traffic?
> 
> For instance, if I have eth1 in a VRF, and eth2 in another VRF, I'd like gre0 to be bound
> to the eth1 VRF and gre1 to the eth2 VRF, with ability to send traffic between the two
> gre interfaces and have that go out whatever the ethernet VRFs route to...

You can set eth{1,2} as the "physical device" of gre{0,1}

ip link add name gre0 up type gre [...] dev eth1
ip link add name gre1 up type gre [...] dev eth2

The "physical device" can be any interface in the VRF, not necessarily
eth{1,2}.