Aperture Internet Laboratory aims to:

• develop, improve, and distribute free and publicly available software that aids, supports, and assists the free and efficient transmission of information and communications;
• conduct scientific research on the free and efficient transmission of information and communications, and promote the use of such knowledge;
• create and maintain hardware infrastructure that aids, supports, and assists the free and efficient transmission of information and communication;
• do any and all lawful activities which may be necessary, useful, or desirable for the furtherance, accomplishment, fostering, and attainment of the foregoing purposes; and,
• support the ever-growing internet community that wants to experiment and gain hands-on experience with the real world BGP.

If you are a researcher interested in BGP and routing security, internet censorship, DoS attack mitigation, advanced SP / DC networks (segment routing, FlowSpec, etc.), or any other internet/communications topics and looking for any of the followings, we may be able to help:

• Server colocation
• Virtual server
• BGP access (IP transit / DFZ routing table view / IPv6 allocation / ASN sponsorship)
• Unfiltered internet access (incl. spoofed source address - solely for the purpose of security research)
• ...or any other interesting things we may be able to offer.

Drop an email to [email protected] with a brief (three to five paragraphs) description of your project or research; we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Software projects by Aperture Internet Laboratory.

• hysteria

  a powerful, lightning fast and censorship resistant proxy.

• apermon

  Multipurpose flow monitoring and analysis tool.

• mpis

  Multiprotocol IP Switching (MPIS) - an eBPF-based "tunneling" technique allows tunneling traffic across internet w/o dropping MTU.

• seed-emulator [paper] [applications] [sigcomm]

  A Python framework for creating emulation of the Internet.

• traced

  A simple utility to fake IPv4 traceroute path, optionally with MPLS labels.

• xdp-router

  A minimum XDP router implementation with basic IPv4 and IPv6 support.

• ldpd

  A LDP (label distribution protocol) implemtation.

• sitd

  A simple daemon for managing multiple SIT (Simple Internet Transition) tunnels. Created for self-hosted IPv6 tunnel broker service.

• s5tunnel

  A simple tool that tunnels local TCP/UDP ports to remote servers through a SOCKS5 proxy.

• eoip

  A fast MikroTik's EoIP/EoIPv6 implementation for *nix.

• libbgp

  A BGP library written in C++. With support for some modern BGP features (MP-BGP, 4-bytes ASN) and a simple to use deserialization/serialization interface. A BGP FSM is also included. Might not continue development anymore since it was again initially designed for the "legacy" SEED internet simulator.

• cn-routefeed

  A BGP speaker that feeds IP blocks that delegated to China to peer. Useful if you try to do some special routing against China's IP block. (e.g., route to/exclude from VPN)