scope:

The present document defines the user plane of GTP used on:

• the Gn and Gp interfaces of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS);

• the Iu, Gn and Gp interfaces of the UMTS system;

• the S1-U, X2, S4, S5, S8 and S12 interfaces of the Evolved Packet System (EPS);

This definition ensures full backwards compatibility with RNC, SGSN and GGSN implementations according to release 7 of 3GPP TS 29.060 [6].

NOTE: Releases previous to Release-8 have used 3GPP TS 29.060 [6] as normative definition of the user plane of GTP. This shall be considered when essential corrections are included in the present document or in pre-release-8 version of 3GPP TS 29.060 [6].

Fallback from GTPv1-U to GTPv0-U shall not be supported. Therefore, 3GPP Rel-8 and onwards GTPv1-U entity should not listen to the well-known GTPv0 port 3386. If GTPv1 entity listens to the GTPv0 port, the entity shall silently discard any received GTPv0-U message.