There is no UDP port number assigned for GRE because it does not run over UDP. 
It runs DIRECTLY over IP. Check the RFC if you don’t believe me. 

Dino

> On Feb 28, 2022, at 9:29 PM, to...@strayalpha.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On Feb 28, 2022, at 8:00 PM, Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There is a base case to the recursion, i.e., where logical information 
>>> meets fermions and bosons (literally). But that tells you only that base 
>>> layer; it tells you nothing about the meaning of the headers you see 
>>> inside, e.g., in OSI, they would be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, but in an IP tunnel, 
>>> they could be 1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7, with GRE they could be 1,2,3,2,3,4,5,6,7, 
>>> etc.
>> 
>> An IP tunnel with protocol number 4 is indeed 1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7, but LISP (UDP 
>> port 4341) UDP tunnels are 1,2,3,4,3,4,5,6,7 and GRE is 1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7 
>> because it runs directly over IP with protocol number 47.
>> 
>> Dino
> 
> If GRE runs over IP, then it would be the same as IP-over-UDP tunnels:
> 
> 1,2,3(IP), 4(GRE, since it is a protocol number of IP), 3(IP in GRE), 5,6,7, 
> i.e.: 1,2,3,4,3,4,5,6,7
> 
> It’s all actually relative, though - to the left IP, GRE is layer 4. To the 
> right IP, GRE is layer 2.
> 
> Joe

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