Aether is an ISP infrastructure emulator built from scratch by a CS student to provide a learning reference for networking without proper guidance; it emulates IPoE IPv4 subscriber management and supports traffic shaping and simulation on Containerlab, though it has limitations like significant overhead with multiple veth hops and lacks iBGP or VLAN support. This project offers content creators and aspiring network engineers an open-source starting point to understand ISP infrastructure complexities and build upon it for educational purposes.
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