@misc{rfc8086, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 8086, howpublished = {RFC 8086}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC8086}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8086}, author = {Lucy Yong and Edward Crabbe and Xiaohu Xu and Tom Herbert}, title = {{GRE-in-UDP Encapsulation}}, pagetotal = 27, year = 2017, month = mar, abstract = {This document specifies a method of encapsulating network protocol packets within GRE and UDP headers. This GRE-in-UDP encapsulation allows the UDP source port field to be used as an entropy field. This may be used for load-balancing of GRE traffic in transit networks using existing Equal-Cost Multipath (ECMP) mechanisms. There are two applicability scenarios for GRE-in-UDP with different requirements: (1) general Internet and (2) a traffic-managed controlled environment. The controlled environment has less restrictive requirements than the general Internet.}, }