dae
eBPF-based transparent proxy with traffic splitting
dae is a high-performance transparent proxy solution that uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception and flexible routing rules. It is self-hosted on Linux as a single binary or service.
Key features
- eBPF transparent proxy
- Kernel-level routing
- Traffic splitting
- Low overhead
Strengths
- Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
- Mature project with 6.1k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
- Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM
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