# Proxy Protocol

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\ <mark style="color:$warning;">If you don't enable Proxy Protocol, you can't use the protection.</mark>\
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Once you enabled Proxy Protocol all connections must be proxied through our service and normal (direct) connections won't work anymore.

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### 1. Why are we using Proxy Protocol

1. Disabling Proxy Protocol can cause many problems with your backend server, e.g., IP banning, as an example if you ip ban a cheater from your server, then all players got banned.
2. Proxy Protocol provides lower latency.

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## 2. How to enable Proxy Protocol

#### Bungeecord / Waterfall

Open config.yml and set:

```yaml
proxy_protocol: true
```

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#### Velocity

Open velocity.toml and set:

```toml
haproxy-protocol = true
```

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### Paper 1.19+ <a href="#paper-1-19" id="paper-1-19"></a>

Only enable it if you are not running a proxy like BungeeCord/Velocity in front of your server.

Since version 1.19 Paper supports Proxy Protocol natively and doesn't require any plugin.

Just open config/paper-global.yml and set:

```yaml
proxy-protocol: true
```

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#### Geyser

Open config.yml and set:

```yaml
geyser:
  enable-proxy-protocol: true
remote:
  use-proxy-protocol: true
```


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