Open-source networking software
2108 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged networking, ranked by how closely networking is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2108 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| bulianglin/demo A collection of shell scripts and auxiliary files accompanying the 'bulianglin' (不良林) YouTube channel's tutorials on VPN and proxy tools, i… | 81 | 2114 | active |
| pojntfx/weron weron is a Go-based tool and library that creates lean, fast, and secure overlay networks using WebRTC. It connects nodes behind NATs and f… | 27 | 2113 | active |
| sleep3r/mtproto.zig A tiny, dependency-free MTProto proxy written in Zig that disguises Telegram traffic as standard TLS 1.3 HTTPS traffic. It is designed for … | 75 | 2103 | active |
| ipfs/public-gateway-checker A web application that displays a list of public IPFS gateways and checks whether each is online, including CORS, IPNS, origin isolation, a… | 95 | 2099 | active |
| onsip/SIP.js SIP.js is a JavaScript/TypeScript SIP signaling library for building WebRTC applications with audio/video calling, messaging, and presence.… | 58 | 2098 | active |
| oxen-io/lokinet Lokinet is the reference implementation of LLARP, a low-latency layer 3 onion routing protocol that forms a decentralized, IP-based overlay… | 63 | 2092 | active |
| Shadowrocket for Android Shadowrocket for Android is a free VPN client that provides built‑in free proxy nodes and premium private servers. It supports multiple pro… | 97 | 2089 | active |
| pivpn/pivpn PiVPN is a set of shell scripts that turn a Raspberry Pi or any Debian/Ubuntu server into a WireGuard or OpenVPN VPN server with a one-comm… | 75 | 8044 | maintenance |
| OpenPubkey opkssh is a Go CLI tool that enables SSH authentication via OpenID Connect identities instead of long-lived SSH keys. It generates SSH publ… | 88 | 2083 | active |
| mudler/edgevpn EdgeVPN is a statically compiled, decentralized p2p VPN built on libp2p that creates private networks joined via shared tokens, with no cen… | 95 | 2078 | active |
| Genymobile/gnirehtet Gnirehtet provides reverse tethering for Android devices over adb, letting a plugged-in phone use the computer's internet connection withou… | 23 | 7989 | maintenance |
| ipinfo/cli The official command-line client for the IPinfo.io API, written in Go. It lets users look up IP geolocation, ASN, privacy detection, and re… | 67 | 2074 | active |
| handshake-org/hsd HSD is a full node implementation of the Handshake decentralized naming/cryptocurrency protocol, written in JavaScript for Node.js. It prov… | 39 | 2073 | active |
| haad/proxychains ProxyChains is a UNIX command-line tool that forces TCP connections and DNS lookups of any dynamically linked program through SOCKS4/5 or H… | 32 | 7964 | maintenance |
| groundcover-com/caretta Caretta is a lightweight standalone tool that uses eBPF to map all service network interactions in a Kubernetes cluster and visualizes them… | 34 | 2069 | active |
| heiher/hev-socks5-tunnel A lightweight, high-performance tun2socks implementation that forwards TCP and UDP traffic from a TUN device through a SOCKS5 proxy. It is … | 100 | 2066 | active |
| dae daed is a modern web dashboard for managing the dae proxy/routing daemon, built with React and TypeScript. It provides a responsive, keyboa… | 10 | 2061 | active |
| garywill/linux-router A single-file bash script that turns a Linux machine into a router in one command, wrapping iptables, dnsmasq, and related tools. It suppor… | 76 | 2058 | active |
| alibaba/anyproxy AnyProxy is a fully configurable HTTP/HTTPS proxy server built on Node.js, supporting custom rule modules to intercept, modify, and inspect… | 32 | 7897 | maintenance |
| koho/frpmgr A Windows desktop GUI application that wraps the FRP (Fast Reverse Proxy) client in an all-in-one manager combining a configuration editor,… | 93 | 2055 | active |
| wb2osz/direwolf Dire Wolf is a software soundcard AX.25 packet modem/TNC and APRS encoder/decoder written in C. It replaces hardware TNCs, decoding radio s… | 80 | 2053 | active |
| Sergeydigl3/zapret-discord-youtube-linux A plug-and-play Linux shell script adapter that ports Flowseal's zapret-discord-youtube and bol-van's zapret for bypassing DPI-based thrott… | 73 | 2049 | active |
| sipt/shuttle Shuttle is a cross-platform network proxy tool written in Go supporting SOCKS5, SOCKS5 over TLS, and shadowsocks protocols. It offers rule-… | 44 | 2044 | active |
| melbahja/goph Goph is a lightweight, native Go SSH client library for executing commands over SSH connections with a simple API. It supports multiple aut… | 92 | 2037 | active |
| fscarmen/ArgoX A one-click Shell script that deploys Xray with multiple proxy protocols (Reality, Hysteria2, VLESS, VMess, Trojan, Shadowsocks, XHTTP) beh… | 75 | 2036 | active |
| feross/simple-peer A JavaScript library providing a simple, node.js-style API for WebRTC peer-to-peer video, voice, and data channels. It works in both the br… | 32 | 7798 | maintenance |
| OpenP2P OpenP2P is a lightweight, open-source P2P networking tool written in Go that connects devices across NATs using UDP/TCP hole punching, UPnP… | 81 | 2032 | active |
| openlibrecommunity/olcrtc olcRTC is an encrypted TCP-over-WebRTC tunnel written in Go that disguises traffic as ordinary video calls on whitelisted meeting services … | 10 | 2030 | active |
| lunarmodules/luasocket LuaSocket is a Lua extension library providing TCP and UDP transport support via C modules, plus Lua modules for common Internet protocols … | 64 | 2028 | stable |
| hyperion-cs/dpi-checkers A collection of checkers (a comprehensive Go-based DPI-CH tool plus browser-based checkers) that detect whether an ISP or datacenter applie… | 83 | 2027 | active |
| Evil Limiter A Python command-line tool that monitors, analyzes, and limits the bandwidth of devices on a local network using ARP spoofing and traffic s… | 52 | 2025 | active |
| librats/rats-search A cross-platform BitTorrent search engine for desktop and web servers that crawls the DHT network and indexes torrents for full-text search… | 98 | 2023 | active |
| sipcapture/homer HOMER is an open-source telecom observability platform that captures, stores, and analyzes SIP/VoIP/RTC signaling via the HEP protocol. Ver… | 93 | 2018 | active |
| Switch LAN Play A client-server tool that lets Nintendo Switch players play together over the internet as if they were on the same local network. A PC clie… | 25 | 2018 | active |
| justcoding121/titanium-web-proxy Titanium Web Proxy is a lightweight, high-performance HTTP(S) proxy server library for .NET that can operate as a man-in-the-middle (MITM) … | 100 | 2012 | active |
| aiortc/aioquic aioquic is a Python library implementing the QUIC network protocol (RFC 9000/9369) with a minimal TLS 1.3 implementation and an HTTP/3 stac… | 49 | 2007 | active |
| mashirozx/Pixiv-Nginx A fork of nginx preconfigured with reverse-proxy configs, TLS certificates, and hosts entries to restore access to Pixiv from networks wher… | 55 | 2001 | active |
| StressOzz/Zapret-Manager A universal shell-based manager for bypassing internet censorship and DPI-based blocks on OpenWrt routers. It automates installation and co… | 80 | 1997 | active |
| ssili126/tv A Python tool that automatically collects IPv4 hotel IPTV live stream sources (including CCTV, satellite, and some local Chinese channels),… | 71 | 1997 | active |
| rdegges/ipify-api The Go source code powering ipify, a free public API service that returns a client's public IP address, serving billions of requests per mo… | 32 | 1996 | stable |
| apache/trafficserver Apache Traffic Server is a fast, scalable, and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server written in C++. It powers majo… | 77 | 1995 | stable |
| quickfix/quickfix QuickFIX is a free, open-source C++ implementation of the FIX (Financial Information eXchange) protocol, serving as a full-featured messagi… | 69 | 1995 | stable |
| mfontanini/libtins libtins is a high-level, multiplatform C++ library for network packet sniffing, parsing, and crafting. It provides an efficient, endianness… | 80 | 1994 | stable |
| Cenmrev/V2RayX V2RayX is a macOS GUI application that wraps v2ray-core, generating its config file and managing the core process via launchd. It lets user… | 10 | 7618 | maintenance |
| t6x/reaver-wps-fork-t6x Reaver is a C-based command-line tool that performs brute force attacks against Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs to recover WPA/W… | 41 | 1991 | active |
| trojanpanel/install-script A one-click shell installation script for Trojan Panel, a multi-user web administration panel that manages proxy nodes running Xray, Trojan… | 28 | 1990 | active |
| Aurora-Admin-Panel/deploy Aurora Panel is a self-hosted multi-server port leasing management panel that lets an administrator add servers and ports and assign them t… | 40 | 1988 | active |
| brotandgames/ciao ciao is a self-hosted web application that checks HTTP(S) URL endpoints for expected status codes on a cron schedule and notifies via email… | 95 | 1981 | active |
| dswd/vpncloud VpnCloud is a high-performance peer-to-peer mesh VPN written in Rust that runs over UDP with strong end-to-end encryption (Curve25519 and A… | 23 | 1977 | stable |
| baoweise-bot/aimili-vpngate AimiliVPN is a Python tool that manages VPNGate public VPN nodes on Linux VPS, providing node fetching/testing, connection switching, and a… | 76 | 1976 | active |
| chobits/ngx_http_proxy_connect_module An nginx module (also compatible with Tengine and OpenResty) that adds support for the HTTP CONNECT method, turning nginx into a forward pr… | 23 | 1976 | active |
| luigirizzo/netmap Netmap is a framework for extremely fast packet I/O from userspace, implemented as a kernel module for FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows. It incl… | 62 | 1973 | stable |
| koush/AndroidAsync AndroidAsync is a low-level asynchronous network protocol library for Android built on Java NIO, providing socket client/server, HTTP(S) cl… | 32 | 7522 | maintenance |
| GtxFury/FlyClash-Android FlyClash Android is an Android client for the Clash proxy ecosystem, providing VPN-style network proxying on mobile devices. It lets users … | 87 | 1970 | active |
| Ragnt/AngryOxide AngryOxide is an 802.11 WiFi attack tool written in Rust that provides a single-interface survey capability with automated attacks to captu… | 66 | 1967 | active |
| oetiker/SmokePing SmokePing is a Perl-based network latency monitoring system that measures, stores, and graphically displays latency, latency distribution, … | 62 | 1967 | stable |
| heiher/natmap NATMap is a C-based CLI tool that establishes TCP/UDP port mappings from an ISP NAT public address to a local private address using STUN an… | 82 | 1964 | active |
| i2ii/i BHcloud appears to be a commercial VPN/proxy subscription service providing mirror websites for users in mainland China and overseas, with … | 32 | 1962 | active |
| ar51an/iperf3-win-builds A repository providing pre-compiled iperf3 Windows 64-bit executables, built via Cygwin without modifying the original source. It fills the… | 89 | 1960 | active |
| Happ - Proxy Utility Happ is a cross-platform proxy utility client with desktop builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, alongside iOS and Android apps. It lets us… | 84 | 1955 | active |
| nymtech/nym Nym is a decentralized privacy platform built in Rust, centered on a mixnet that shuffles Sphinx packets to protect network-level metadata,… | 96 | 1950 | active |
| tailscale/golink golink is a private shortlink service that runs inside a Tailscale tailnet, letting teams create short memorable go/ links for internal sit… | 75 | 1949 | active |
| MortyFx/speedtest-x A self-hosted web-based network speed test application built as an extension of LibreSpeed. It stores speed test results in a lightweight f… | 25 | 1949 | active |
| SIPSorcery SIPSorcery is a C#/.NET library implementing SIP, WebRTC, RTP, ICE, STUN and SDP for building real-time communication applications. It is p… | 75 | 1945 | active |
| varnish/hitch Hitch is a scalable TLS/SSL termination proxy written in C by Varnish Software. It decrypts TLS connections and forwards unencrypted traffi… | 65 | 1944 | active |
| vvxw/deploy-vercel A Vercel-deployable template that runs a proxy node service disguised behind a static HTML decoy page, with subscription link generation an… | 54 | 1944 | active |
| editso/fuso Fuso is a lightweight, fast, cross-platform intranet penetration (NAT traversal) and port forwarding tool written in Rust. It supports mult… | 54 | 1943 | active |
| webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker A Node.js and browser library implementing both BitTorrent tracker client and server, supporting HTTP, UDP, and WebTorrent (WebSocket/WebRT… | 78 | 1941 | active |
| nitefood/asn A Bash-based command-line tool and self-hostable server for looking up ASN, RPKI validity, BGP stats, IP prefixes, AS paths, IP reputation,… | 96 | 1936 | active |
| daeuniverse/gg gg (go-graft) is a Linux command-line proxy tool that redirects the network traffic of any command through a proxy with a single prefix, su… | 60 | 1936 | active |
| hotyue/IP-Sentinel IP-Sentinel is a lightweight, modular Master-Agent distributed system for maintaining VPS IP assets. It detects IP geolocation misclassific… | 80 | 1935 | active |
| hackerschoice/gsocket Global Socket (gsocket) is a C-based toolkit that lets two machines behind NAT or firewalls establish secure, end-to-end encrypted TCP conn… | 63 | 1934 | active |
| deepfence/PacketStreamer PacketStreamer is a distributed, high-performance remote packet capture tool that runs lightweight sensors on target hosts to stream filter… | 10 | 1934 | active |
| alibaba/xquic XQUIC is Alibaba's cross-platform C library implementing the IETF QUIC and HTTP/3 protocols for both client and server use. It supports QUI… | 92 | 1923 | active |
| box4magisk A Magisk/KernelSU/APatch module that deploys proxy cores such as sing-box, clash/mihomo, v2ray, xray, and hysteria on rooted Android device… | 72 | 1914 | active |
| byJoey/ech-wk A cross-platform proxy client that uses TLS 1.3 Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) to encrypt SNI information, exposing both a SOCKS5 and HTTP CO… | 45 | 1905 | active |
| spiritLHLS/ecs A shell-based 'Fusion Monster' VPS server testing script that benchmarks CPU, disk, network speed, and IP quality across many Linux distrib… | 74 | 7221 | maintenance |
| Dyneteq/reconya reconYa is a self-hosted network reconnaissance and asset discovery tool written in Go that scans local networks via ICMP, TCP, and ARP to … | 81 | 1902 | active |
| magnific0/wondershaper Wonder Shaper is a shell script that limits the bandwidth of one or more network adapters using iproute's tc command with a simplified comm… | 32 | 1902 | active |
| davecheney/httpstat httpstat is a Go CLI tool that visualizes HTTP request timing breakdowns (DNS, connection, TLS, server processing) with colored output, sim… | 86 | 7192 | maintenance |
| Eugeny/russh Russh is a low-level, Tokio-based SSH2 client and server library for Rust, forked from Thrussh. It supports a wide range of ciphers, key ex… | 98 | 1898 | active |
| Tunnelmole Tunnelmole is an open-source tunneling tool that gives locally running HTTP(S) servers a public URL, similar to ngrok. It is distributed as… | 62 | 1894 | active |
| razvandimescu/numa Numa is a portable DNS resolver in a single Rust binary that provides ad blocking, local .numa service domains, hostname overrides, and pri… | 99 | 1890 | active |
| seagullz4/hysteria2 A one-click installation script (shell and Python versions) for deploying the Hysteria2 proxy server on Linux VPSes. It handles certificate… | 59 | 1887 | active |
| loxilb loxilb is an open-source, eBPF-based cloud-native load-balancer written in Go, designed to work across on-prem, public-cloud, and hybrid Ku… | 92 | 1886 | active |
| srixivas/PcapXray PcapXray is a Python-based network forensics tool that visualizes PCAP files or live traffic as an annotated network diagram. It identifies… | 78 | 1884 | active |
| Chleba/netscanner netscanner is a terminal-based network scanner and diagnostic tool with a modern TUI, written in Rust. It supports WiFi network scanning, C… | 73 | 1884 | active |
| markqvist/Sideband Sideband is an end-to-end encrypted, infrastructure-less LXMF messaging and LXST telephony client for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows, bu… | 98 | 1883 | active |
| abc123info/BlueTeamTools BlueTeamTools is a Java-based GUI toolbox that aggregates utilities for blue-team security analysts, covering memory-shell decompilation, w… | 85 | 1882 | active |
| Cacti Cacti is an open-source, LAMP-based network monitoring and graphing platform built on RRDtool that collects, stores, and visualizes time-se… | 82 | 1882 | stable |
| litespeedtech/lsquic LSQUIC is an open-source C library implementing the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3 for both servers and clients, used in production by … | 100 | 1878 | active |
| eworm-de/routeros-scripts A collection of scripts for MikroTik RouterOS to manage devices and extend their functionality. It covers tasks like automated updates, bac… | 77 | 1874 | active |
| agrinman/tunnelto tunnelto is a Rust CLI tool that exposes a locally running web server to the internet via a public URL, similar to ngrok. It supports custo… | 23 | 7082 | maintenance |
| xchacha20-poly1305/husi Husi is a multiplatform proxy client built with Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform, using a Go-based libcore (sing-box) backend. It supports … | 90 | 1873 | active |
| byJoey/yx-tools A single-binary Go tool for testing latency and download speed of Cloudflare CDN IPs, supporting IPv4/IPv6 and IP:port pairs for reverse-pr… | 78 | 1871 | active |
| complexorganizations/wireguard-manager A shell-based tool that automates the installation, configuration, and management of WireGuard VPN servers. It provides a user-friendly way… | 45 | 1860 | active |
| superfly/corrosion Corrosion is a Rust-based distributed system that propagates SQLite state across a cluster using gossip (SWIM membership via Foca) and CRDT… | 88 | 1859 | active |
| magma/magma Magma is an open-source mobile core network platform that provides an extendable packet core (EPC/5G core) for network operators, consistin… | 60 | 1858 | active |
| zengzhan/qqzeng-ip A high-performance IP geolocation lookup engine (QZDB) with multi-language SDKs (Rust, C/C++, Go, Java, C#, Node.js, Python, PHP) that reso… | 76 | 1856 | active |
| selinuxG/Golin Golin is a Go-based security assessment tool combining asset discovery, port/service scanning, weak password brute-forcing for 40+ services… | 62 | 1856 | active |