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alfredpost_2135
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Aug 01, 2015

Silverline DDoS limitations of GRE

Hi Im looking to protect a site with 2Gbps of inbound traffic. When engaging cloud Silverline DDoS is there a limitation of how much clean traffic can be delivered to me via GRE, as Ive noticed the p...
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Scott_Altman_81
Historic F5 Account
Aug 03, 2015

Sure can, again, the limitation we find in conversations with customers is with the infrastructure on your side, routers tend to handle GRE better than firewalls, but most vendors advertise how many tunnels they can support, not the sustained bandwidth that's viable on the product over GRE. If you have that side covered, Silverline DDoS Protection can scrub your DDoS attack traffic and you'd be all set!

 

We'd be happy to dig into this in more detail via your account team or shoot us a note at SilverlineSales@f5.com.

 

Thanks much!