On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 12:20 PM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.ker...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 3:17 PM Xie He <xie.he.0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > However, there's something I don't understand in the GRE code. The
> > ipgre_header function only creates an IP header (20 bytes) + a GRE
> > base header (4 bytes), but pushes and returns "t->hlen +
> > sizeof(*iph)". What is t->hlen?
>
> GRE is variable length depending on flags:
>
>         tunnel->tun_hlen = gre_calc_hlen(tunnel->parms.o_flags);
>
>
> > It seems to me it is the sum of
> > t->tun_hlen and t->encap_hlen. What are these two?

OK. I understand that t->tun_hlen is the GRE header length. What is
t->encap_hlen?

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