GRE Tunnel Scrubbing Proxies: Cosmic Guard, Path.net, and OVH Game VAC Integration
Connect unshielded bare-metal servers to enterprise DDoS mitigation networks via GRE tunnels. BGP Anycast routing and deep packet inspection.
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By Darius King, Esports Network Engineer
Architecture of GRE Scrubbing Tunnels
A Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel encapsulates game packets, routing all public traffic through an Anycast scrubbing center (like Path.net) before forwarding sanitized packets to your backend host.