AltraMayor/gatekeeper
The first open-source DDoS protection system observed · 2026-10-07
Health v2 · maintenance only
66/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3758
- days_rel: 659
- days_push: 27
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1649 stars · 255 forks observed · 2026-10-07
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Gatekeeper is the first open-source DDoS protection system, built on DPDK for high-performance packet processing. It uses a geographically distributed architecture of Gatekeeper and Grantor servers with a centralized network policy to filter malicious traffic at scale.
Use cases
- protect my network from DDoS attacks
- mitigate multi-vector DDoS attacks at internet exchange points
- filter malicious traffic at peering links
- deploy distributed DDoS scrubbing with centralized policy
- high-performance packet filtering with DPDK
- protect enterprise or ISP infrastructure from volumetric attacks
When to choose
- you are a network operator at an ISP, IXP, enterprise, or content provider needing scalable DDoS mitigation
- you need line-rate packet filtering on commodity hardware with DPDK
- you want an open-source, self-hosted alternative to commercial DDoS scrubbing services
When to avoid
- you are an individual Internet user wanting to protect a home connection
- you need simple application-layer (L7) DDoS protection for a single website behind a CDN
- you cannot deploy dedicated Linux servers with DPDK-compatible NICs and hugepages support
Facets
service · maturity active
security networking rate-limiting monitoring security networking infrastructure-as-code self-hosted self-hosted ddos-protection ddos-mitigation anti-ddos dpdk high-performance-packet-processing network-security c linux docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper · fetched 2026-10-07 · 10301476955a
- homepage: https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper/wiki · fetched 2026-08-29 · b91d567ba224
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| AltraMayor/gatekeeper | main | 66 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="AltraMayor/gatekeeper")
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