Protect infrastructure outside Avenlith (GRE)

Route traffic for your own data center through Shield and receive clean traffic over a GRE tunnel.

Tutorial1 min readUpdated 22 Sept 2026.md
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How it works#

  1. We announce your /24 prefix from all Avenlith scrubbing centres.
  2. Attack traffic is filtered at our edge — 18 Tbps of capacity.
  3. Clean traffic is delivered to your router through a GRE tunnel.
  4. Return traffic leaves directly from your network (asymmetric routing).

Configure the tunnel#

Shell
# On your router (Linux example)
ip tunnel add avn0 mode gre local 192.0.2.10 remote 185.7.240.1 ttl 255
ip addr add 169.254.30.2/30 dev avn0
ip link set avn0 up mtu 1476
ip route add default via 169.254.30.1 table 100
ip rule add from 198.51.100.0/24 table 100

Always-on or on-demand#

ModeLatencyReaction time
Always-on+1–3 msInstant
On-demand (BGP swing)none until attack30–90 seconds

On-demand mode can be triggered automatically by flow data (sFlow/NetFlow) you export to us.

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