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The GRE Fragment and Reassembly Performance Tuning feature enables you to customize reassembly resources. Reassembly resources are equally allocated to each interface to prevent fragment-related attack. However, in some generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel deployments, fragments are reassembled in specific interfaces. This feature also allows you to adjust the reassembly timer to free up incomplete fragment sessions quickly and reserve the reassembly resources for high priority packets.
The IPv4 or IPv6 protocol must be enabled on an interface.
This feature supports manually created tunnel interfaces or physical interfaces (virtual template is not officially supported).
Information About GRE Fragment and Reassembly
In Cisco software, packets may be dropped due to nonavailability of reassembly resources of an interface when fragments arrive concurrently on an interface, though, other interfaces have the resources to reassemble fragments. In some cases, some interfaces need additional resources, such as generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel deployment, and resources are freed only when fragments are reassembled. Therefore, if all fragments are not received, the reassembly resources are not freed.
The GRE Fragment and Reassembly Performance Tuning feature improves reassembly performance by reassembling high priority fragments first so that these fragments are not dropped when low priority fragments occupy the reassembly resources.
Sometimes, a big packet may be received before a small packet, but forwarded after a small packet. Consider a scenario, in which a big packet followed by a small packet (packet size smaller than the egress interface MTU). The big packet may be fragmented and reassembled. Fragmentation and reassembly of the big packet requires an additional processor cycle. Devices that run on Cisco IOS XE software follow multithread processing. That is, small packet require shorter processing time and, hence, may be forwarded before the fragmented big packet. This process results in packet sequence changes on the receiver's end (big packets received before small packets, but may be forwarded out after small packets).
How to Use GRE Fragment and Reassembly
Perform this task to do the following:
Enable generic routing encapsulation (GRE) Fragment and Reassembly (GFR) on an interface
Specify maximum threshold values to combat buffer overflow and control memory usage
Verify GFR configurations
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enable Example: |
Enables privileged EXEC mode.
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configure terminal Example: |
Enters global configuration mode. |
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interface type number Example: |
Configures an interface type and enters interface configuration mode. |
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Enter one of the following:
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Enables GFR on an IPv4 or IPv6 interface, as appropriate. |
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end Example: |
Exits interface configuration mode and returns to privileged EXEC mode. |
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Enter one of the following:
Example:Example: |
Displays statistical information of the GFR configured about the interface. |
Configuration Examples for GRE Fragment and Reassembly
The following example shows how to configure GFR on a Gigabit Ethernet interface and specify the maximum reassembly and timeout settings:
interface GigabitEthernet 0/0/0
ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.0
ipv6 address 2001:DB8:1::1
ip reassembly max-reassemblies 1024 timeout 1 percentage 50 dscp ef
ipv6 reassembly max-reassemblies 1024 timeout 1 percentage 50 dscp ef
ip virtual-reassembly max-reassemblies 1024 timeout 1 percentage 10 dscp af41
ipv6 reassembly out max-reassemblies 1024 timeout 1 percentage 50 precedence cs1
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Virtual Fragmentation and Reassembly |
Virtual Fragmentation and Reassembly |
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GRE Fragment and Reassembly Performance Tuning |
Cisco IOS XE Release 3.8S |
The GRE Fragment and Reassembly Performance Tuning feature enables you to customize reassembly resources. Reassembly resources are equally allocated to each interface to prevent fragment-related attack. However, in some generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel deployments, fragments are reassembled in specific interfaces. This feature also allows you to adjust the reassembly timer to free up incomplete fragment sessions quickly and reserve the reassembly resources for high priority packets. The following commands were introduced or modified: ip reassembly, show ip reassembly. |
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