AminMGMT

    AminMGMT/BackPack

    #525 this week

    BackPack is a high-performance tunnel engine for connecting Iran ⇄ abroad (kharej) servers

    networking
    backpack
    ip-spoof
    ip-spoofing
    ip-spoofing-tunnel
    kcp
    Go
    AGPL-3.0
    490 stars
    114 forks
    490 GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 18, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #525 of 2,531 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 21%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 18 days ago, with 4 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Implements a high-performance reverse tunnel engine in Go for secure edge to origin server communication.
    • Offers multiple transport options with stealth features and automatic failover for reliable, censorship-resistant tunneling.
    • Use for securely exposing internal services in restrictive network environments without open inbound ports.
    • Use for creating full IP tunnels that unify remote servers into a private network with encrypted GRE over Noise.
    • Use for managing and monitoring tunnels via an interactive CLI and secured web dashboard with health checks and Telegram alerts.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    AGPL 3.0

    Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

    • AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.

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    From the README

    Backpack is a high-performance tunnel engine written entirely in Go, purpose-built for Iran ⇄ abroad (kharej) server setups. One self-contained binary with an interactive CLI and a secured web dashboard — run and manage everything with or without a terminal.

    It carries a tunnel three ways: reverse (kharej dials Iran), direct (Iran dials out), and a full IP tunnel that puts both servers on one private network.

    An end user connects to a forwarded port on the Iran server; the engine carries it through one transport to the kharej client, which hands it to the real service. In the reverse tunnel above the connection is dialed by the client (kharej → Iran), so the far side needs no open inbound port.

    The ports never move: Iran exposes them, kharej holds the real service. What changes is who reaches out first, and what the tunnel carries.

    Both are built from Setup Iran and Setup Kharej: pick the machine you are on, and the wizard asks which direction you want and writes the config itself.

    A direct tunnel is a full IP tunnel — an interface on each host carrying whole IP packets, wrapped in Backpack's own GRE inside a Noise session and handed to one of three carriers. It measures its own MTU once it is up, which is the setting that fails worst when it is wrong.

    Excerpt from the AminMGMT/BackPack README on GitHub (AGPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Sep 22: +5Oct 3: +8Oct 4: +3

    +139 stars over 28 days across 7 snapshot days; best day +8 on Oct 3.

    Forks

    114+29

    Open issues

    13+6

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