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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2021
Cloudflare, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Philip Branch, Romford, GB;
CLOUDFARE, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A client device establishes a first VPN connection with a VPN server. Traffic is sent from the client device through the first VPN connection that is destined to a different client device that has a second VPN connection with the VPN server. The client device receives a public network address of the different client device and routing metrics from the VPN server. Based at least in part on the routing metrics, the client device determines an optimal route to the different client device, where the optimal route is a connection between the client device and the different client device that does not traverse the VPN server. The client device establishes a VPN connection with the different client device and transmits traffic to that different client device using the VPN connection using the public network address of the different client device.