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htrgouvea/nipe

An engine to make Tor network your default gateway observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/htrgouvea/nipe · homepage · Perl · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

72/100

  • Activity 89
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4013
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 67
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2387 stars · 339 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Nipe is a Perl-based command-line engine that routes all of a machine's network traffic through the Tor network by manipulating iptables/ip6tables rules, making Tor the default gateway. It supports IPv4 and IPv6 and offers simple start/stop/restart/status commands, plus a Docker setup.

Use cases

  • route all my traffic through tor
  • make tor my default network gateway
  • anonymize my machine's internet traffic
  • transparently redirect traffic through tor with iptables
  • browse the internet anonymously from the command line
  • run an anonymous networking container with docker

When to choose

  • you want system-wide Tor routing on Linux rather than per-app proxying
  • you need IPv4 and IPv6 traffic transparently sent through Tor
  • you prefer a simple CLI to start, stop, and check Tor routing status

When to avoid

  • you need UDP or ICMP traffic anonymized, since Tor blocks non-local UDP/ICMP
  • you are on Windows or macOS without iptables support
  • you have existing iptables rules you cannot afford to disrupt, since stopping Nipe flushes its rules

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

networking security privacy cli privacy security networking cli tor anonymity iptables transparent-proxy perl default-gateway command-line linux

4 sources

Member repositories

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htrgouvea/nipemain72

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