Tunnel differences EoIP vs IPIP

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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HI all,

Since I’m pretty new to Mikrotik I would like to know the difference between EoIP and IPIP tunnel and in which situation examples should I use one or the other . I read the Wiki and here are some differences I figured out.

IPIP:

  • Layer 3 routed type traffic
  • Inter operability with other vendors
  • Based on RFC

EoIP:

  • Layer 2 shouted type traffic
  • Mikrotik to Mikrotik
  • Proprietary protocol

Thank you

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One more difference: EoIP is GRE based protocol so it supports packet fragmentation, IPIP does not.

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So no more MTU problems?! This is huge

And in terms of ressources used, is one more demanding than the other?

Martin

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Of course packet fragmentation needs more CPU resources, but you don’t have to worry about it unless really slow CPU is used.

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Have several EOIP tunnels runnign for access customers. Have yet to see one complaint. One tunnel handles 30 megs of traffic from 700+ customers on a routine basis.

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Recommend what model of the Mikrotik to choose for the central office that it supported 600 IPSec peers and 600 EoIP.

Whether it is possible to adjust traffic enciphering which goes through interfaces EoIP and IPIP ?

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RB1000U or a high-end X86 system with many cores.

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  1. I would recommend to use very powerful x86 as Ipsec encryption is quite CPU intensive.

  2. EoIP and IPIP is unencrypted. Only way is to run another encrypted tunnel over EoIP or IPIP.

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I don’t know if you find the different.

The EOIP works like a physique interface it’s makes a tunnel between two Mikrotik only and may be used for bridging, Vlan etc..
The IPIP like the name says is an IP tunnel which cannot be bridged or you cannot use Vlan on it. It’s make only an IP tunnel between two IP and it’s compatible with most of brand of router.

I hop that I’ve been clear. it LOL to be a teacher