Open-source networking software
2154 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.
2154 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| jwise/HoRNDIS HoRNDIS is a macOS kernel extension (kext) driver that enables Android USB tethering, letting a Mac use an Android phone's native tethering… | 23 | 3261 | maintenance |
| DhavalKapil/icmptunnel icmptunnel is a C command-line tool that transparently encapsulates IP traffic inside ICMP echo and reply packets, tunneling it through a p… | 23 | 3251 | maintenance |
| progrium/localtunnel Localtunnel is a tool that exposes localhost servers to the public Internet via tunnels. The current v3 is a minimal Go implementation buil… | 32 | 3227 | maintenance |
| sensepost/reGeorg reGeorg is a Python tool that creates a SOCKS proxy through a compromised bastion webserver by tunneling traffic over HTTP(S) via uploaded … | 33 | 3180 | maintenance |
| sustrik/libmill Libmill is a C library that brings Go-style concurrency to C, providing goroutine-like coroutines and channels. It lets C developers write … | 32 | 3176 | maintenance |
| facebookarchive/network-connection-class An Android library by Facebook that listens to the app's existing network traffic and classifies the user's connection quality into discret… | 10 | 3170 | maintenance |
| sdushantha/wifi-password A Python command-line tool that quickly retrieves the password of the WiFi network you are connected to (or a previously connected SSID). I… | 23 | 3153 | maintenance |
| saminiir/level-ip A userspace TCP/IP stack for Linux implemented in C using TUN/TAP devices, with an accompanying blog series explaining Ethernet, ARP, IPv4,… | 32 | 3135 | maintenance |
| tomnomnom/httprobe httprobe is a Go command-line tool that takes a list of domains on stdin and probes for working HTTP and HTTPS servers, reporting which res… | 23 | 3126 | maintenance |
| alexforencich/verilog-ethernet A collection of Verilog Ethernet components for FPGA implementation, covering gigabit, 10G, and 25G packet processing with MAC, PCS/PMA PHY… | 32 | 3115 | maintenance |
| eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.android Eclipse Paho Android Service is an MQTT client library written in Java for Android applications, supporting MQTT 3.1/3.1.1 with features li… | 32 | 3101 | maintenance |
| salesforce/ja3 JA3 is a standard and set of scripts (Python and Zeek) for generating SSL/TLS client fingerprints that are easy to produce and share for th… | 10 | 3099 | maintenance |
| dustturtle/RealReachability An iOS library that determines real internet reachability rather than just local network connection status, by combining SCNetworkReachabil… | 55 | 3097 | maintenance |
| risinek/esp32-wifi-penetration-tool An extensible Wi-Fi penetration testing framework for the ESP32 microcontroller, implementing attacks such as PMKID capture, WPA/WPA2 hands… | 23 | 3077 | maintenance |
| bcoin-org/bcoin Bcoin is an alternative implementation of the Bitcoin protocol written in JavaScript and C/C++ for Node.js and browsers. It can run as a fu… | 23 | 3069 | maintenance |
| django-sspanel A self-hosted Shadowsocks proxy management panel built with Django, used to manage proxy nodes, users, and subscriptions. It pairs with the… | 10 | 3066 | maintenance |
| snabbco/snabb Snabb is a simple and fast packet networking toolkit written in Lua on LuaJIT, using kernel-bypass Ethernet I/O. It compiles to a single bu… | 62 | 3033 | maintenance |
| Base Base Node is a Docker-based deployment that runs a full Base L2 Ethereum node using the base-reth execution client and base-consensus. It p… | 86 | 909 | active |
| rajkumardusad/IP-Tracer IP-Tracer is a command-line tool for Linux and Termux that retrieves geolocation and information about any IP address using the ip-api serv… | 23 | 3019 | maintenance |
| esp-link esp-link is ESP8266 firmware that turns the module into a transparent WiFi-to-serial bridge for attached microcontrollers. It also provides… | 23 | 3009 | maintenance |
| KOP-XIAO/QuantumultX A JavaScript resource parser script for the Quantumult X iOS proxy client that converts proxy node subscriptions and configs from formats l… | 77 | 2999 | maintenance |
| facebook/wdt Warp speed Data Transfer (WDT) is an embeddable C++ library and command line tool for transferring files between two systems as fast as pos… | 67 | 2961 | maintenance |
| google/nogotofail Nogotofail is an on-path (man-in-the-middle) blackbox network traffic security testing tool built in Python. It detects weak TLS/SSL connec… | 10 | 2952 | maintenance |
| V2Ray An official Bash installer script (plus community config examples) that installs and manages V2Ray, a network proxy platform, on systemd-ba… | 10 | 875 | active |
| mofarrell/p2pvc p2pvc is a peer-to-peer video chat application that renders live color video as ASCII/Braille characters directly in the terminal, with aud… | 32 | 2891 | maintenance |
| seemoo-lab/nexmon Nexmon is a C-based firmware patching framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi chips that enables custom firmware modifications such as monitor … | 66 | 2886 | maintenance |
| seclab-ucr/INTANG INTANG is a Linux daemon that evades the Great Firewall of China's TCP reset attacks by desynchronizing the TCP Control Block on censorship… | 40 | 2833 | maintenance |
| xuhaoyang/ClashForAndroid A GUI application for Android that wraps the Clash rule-based tunnel proxy core. It lets users route device traffic through configurable pr… | 32 | 2820 | maintenance |
| Ettercap/ettercap Ettercap is a comprehensive open-source suite for man-in-the-middle attacks on local networks. It supports live connection sniffing, on-the… | 83 | 2798 | maintenance |
| TheMRLL/WinXray WinXray is a Windows universal proxy client supporting Xray/V2Ray (vmess/vless), Shadowsocks, SSR, Trojan, Trojan-go, and NaïveProxy, built… | 23 | 2795 | maintenance |
| rtr7/router7 router7 is a small home internet router implemented entirely in Go, running as a gokrazy appliance on PC Engines apu2c4 hardware. It bundle… | 70 | 2771 | maintenance |
| yann-shi/dht A Go library implementing the BitTorrent DHT protocol (BEP-3, 5, 9, 10) with two modes: a standard DHT server and a crawling mode for harve… | 23 | 2771 | maintenance |
| soheilhy/cmux cmux is a Go library that multiplexes TCP connections based on their payload, allowing multiple protocols like gRPC, HTTP, HTTPS, and SSH t… | 58 | 2768 | maintenance |
| picotorrent/picotorrent PicoTorrent is a tiny, hackable BitTorrent client written in modern C++ and built on Rasterbar-libtorrent. It offers a native Windows inter… | 23 | 2758 | maintenance |
| dlundquist/sniproxy A C-based TCP proxy that routes incoming HTTP and TLS connections to backend servers based on the hostname in the initial request (SNI or H… | 47 | 2719 | maintenance |
| mehrdadrad/mylg myLG is an open-source command-line network diagnostic tool written in Go that combines ping, traceroute, BGP looking glasses, DNS lookup, … | 23 | 2719 | maintenance |
| m0rtem/CloudFail CloudFail is a Python 3 command-line reconnaissance tool that attempts to discover the real IP address of servers hidden behind Cloudflare.… | 32 | 2698 | maintenance |
| Sia Sia is a decentralized, blockchain-based peer-to-peer cloud storage marketplace where users rent storage from hosts, with files encrypted a… | 10 | 2693 | maintenance |
| k4m4/kickthemout KickThemOut is a Python command-line tool that kicks devices off a local network by performing an ARP spoofing attack against selected targ… | 23 | 2679 | maintenance |
| open-domains/register A service that provides free subdomains for personal sites, open-source projects, and other developer use cases, historically managed throu… | 10 | 2602 | maintenance |
| wangyu-/tinyfecVPN A lightweight Linux VPN tool that uses Reed-Solomon forward error correction to reduce packet loss and improve TCP latency on high-latency,… | 23 | 2587 | maintenance |
| xuuhaoo/OkSocket OkSocket is a Java library providing a blocking TCP socket client (and optional server plugin) for Android and Java applications. It wraps … | 23 | 2586 | maintenance |
| Wifite Wifite is a Python command-line tool that automates wireless network security auditing by running existing tools like the Aircrack-ng suite… | 82 | 2517 | maintenance |
| cleanbrowsing/dnsperftest A shell script that benchmarks the latency of popular public DNS resolvers (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, OpenDNS, etc.) from your machine. It… | 32 | 2517 | maintenance |
| infosec-au/altdns Altdns is a Python CLI tool for DNS reconnaissance that generates permutations, alterations, and mutations of known subdomains using a word… | 32 | 2511 | maintenance |
| KimiNewt/pyshark A Python wrapper around tshark that lets you parse packets from capture files or live captures using all installed Wireshark dissectors. It… | 52 | 2500 | maintenance |
| zachlatta/sshtron SSHTron is a multiplayer lightcycle (Tron-style) game playable entirely over SSH by connecting to a hosted server. It is written in Go and … | 32 | 2497 | maintenance |
| ndroi/easy163 An Android app that runs a local VPN service to intercept and redirect NetEase Cloud Music HTTP requests, sourcing VIP and delisted songs f… | 23 | 2495 | maintenance |
| github/glb-director GitHub's GLB Director is a set of components implementing a scalable, stateless Layer 4 load balancer for bare metal datacenter environment… | 67 | 2457 | maintenance |
| knownsec/ksubdomain ksubdomain is a stateless subdomain enumeration tool written in Go that performs extremely fast DNS brute-forcing by separating packet send… | 23 | 2402 | maintenance |
| besimorhino/powercat powercat is a PowerShell reimplementation of netcat supporting TCP, UDP, and DNS (dnscat2) connections, file transfer, and shell serving. I… | 32 | 2395 | maintenance |
| flyzy2005/ss-fly A set of one-click shell scripts to install and configure Shadowsocks (SS/SSR) proxy servers on Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian, with optional B… | 32 | 2341 | maintenance |
| icexin/eggos Eggos is a unikernel written almost entirely in Go that runs Go applications directly on x86 bare metal, supporting Go features like GC, go… | 23 | 2328 | maintenance |
| FreddyChen/NettyChat An Android instant messaging (IM) client library built on Netty, TCP, and Protobuf. It provides a complete long-connection messaging stack … | 32 | 2325 | maintenance |
| Pumpkin-MC/Pumpkin Pumpkin is a Minecraft server implementation written entirely in Rust, supporting both Java and Bedrock Edition clients with vanilla game m… | 89 | 12226 | experimental |
| WireGuard WireGuard is a fast, modern, and secure VPN tunnel that uses state-of-the-art cryptography (Noise framework, Curve25519, ChaCha20) to creat… | 65 | 722 | stable |
| eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.java The Eclipse Paho Java Client is an MQTT client library for the JVM and Android, providing both asynchronous (MqttAsyncClient) and synchrono… | 23 | 2297 | maintenance |
| ustayready/fireprox FireProx is a Python CLI tool that uses AWS API Gateway to create on-the-fly HTTP pass-through proxies that rotate the source IP address wi… | 32 | 2285 | maintenance |
| xtr4nge/FruityWifi FruityWiFi is an open-source wireless network auditing tool with a web-based control panel for deploying advanced WiFi attacks. It is modul… | 23 | 2280 | maintenance |
| topotam/PetitPotam PetitPotam is a proof-of-concept tool that coerces Windows hosts to authenticate to attacker-controlled machines via the MS-EFSRPC protocol… | 32 | 2279 | maintenance |
| abba23/spotify-adblock A Spotify adblocker for Linux implemented as a shared library that wraps cef_urlrequest_create and blocks requests to denylisted URLs via L… | 87 | 2241 | maintenance |
| shmilylty/netspy netspy is a fast, cross-platform Go CLI tool for discovering reachable intranet network segments from a compromised host. It supports ICMP,… | 23 | 2237 | maintenance |
| wulabing/V2Ray_ws-tls_bash_onekey A one-click bash installation script that deploys a V2Ray proxy server with VMess/VLESS over WebSocket + TLS, fronted by Nginx with automat… | 32 | 2208 | maintenance |
| thehackingsage/hacktronian Hacktronian is a Python-based, menu-driven collection of penetration testing tools that bundles popular utilities for information gathering… | 32 | 2204 | maintenance |
| LionSec/xerosploit Xerosploit is a Ruby-based penetration testing toolkit that wraps bettercap and nmap to perform man-in-the-middle attacks, port scanning, a… | 23 | 2204 | maintenance |
| codingo/Reconnoitre Reconnoitre is a Python CLI tool for multithreaded information gathering and service enumeration of target hosts and ranges, built original… | 23 | 2196 | maintenance |
| SystemRage/py-kms py-kms is a Python-based KMS (Key Management Service) server emulator that responds to v4, v5, and v6 KMS requests to activate volume-licen… | 32 | 2193 | maintenance |
| ixy network driver Ixy is an educational user-space network driver for Intel ixgbe 10 Gbit/s NICs, implemented in many programming languages (C, Rust, C++, Go… | 32 | 2185 | maintenance |
| fossabot/clash Clash is a rule-based network proxy written in Go that supports HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS proxies with Surge-like configuration and GeoIP rule r… | 32 | 2178 | maintenance |
| noob-hackers/ipdrone Ipdrone is a simple Python script for IP lookup that retrieves information about a target IP address, including live location with address … | 32 | 2165 | maintenance |
| Dliv3/Venom Venom is a multi-hop proxy tool written in Go for penetration testers, connecting multiple nodes to build chained proxies through internal … | 23 | 2163 | maintenance |
| Kkevsterrr/geneva Geneva is a research tool from the University of Maryland that uses a genetic algorithm to automatically evolve packet-manipulation strateg… | 76 | 2144 | maintenance |
| mtcp-stack/mtcp mTCP is a highly scalable user-level TCP stack for multicore systems, implemented in C with kernel-bypass packet I/O via DPDK, netmap, or P… | 23 | 2138 | maintenance |
| snooda/net-speeder net-speeder is a C-based Linux tool that speeds up single-threaded downloads on high-latency, unstable network links by duplicating outgoin… | 32 | 2137 | maintenance |
| lbryio/torba Torba is a Python library and client/server framework for building fast, correct, and scalable cryptocurrency wallets based on Bitcoin. It … | 10 | 2128 | maintenance |
| armon/go-socks5 A Go library that implements a SOCKS5 proxy server, supporting No-Auth and User/Password authentication and the CONNECT command. It offers … | 32 | 2121 | maintenance |
| quericy/one-key-ikev2-vpn A one-click bash script that installs and configures an IKEv2/L2TP VPN server using strongSwan on Ubuntu, CentOS, or Debian. It handles cer… | 32 | 2104 | maintenance |
| traefik/mesh Traefik Mesh is a simple, full-featured service mesh for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification. It uses… | 52 | 2102 | maintenance |
| sheepla/pingu pingu is a ping command implementation written in Go that adds colorful output and Pingu penguin ASCII art to ICMP echo results. It support… | 23 | 2077 | maintenance |
| moxie0/sslstrip sslstrip is a Python command-line tool that implements Moxie Marlinspike's SSL stripping man-in-the-middle attack, downgrading HTTPS links … | 32 | 2075 | maintenance |
| alibaba/LVS Alibaba's distribution of Linux Virtual Server (LVS) adding advanced features to the kernel IPVS load balancer. It introduces the FULLNAT p… | 32 | 2043 | maintenance |
| Tencent/phxrpc PhxRPC is a compact C++ RPC framework from Tencent's WeChat backend team, using Protobuf as IDL to generate client and server code. It feat… | 23 | 2032 | maintenance |
| Cenmrev/V2RayW V2RayW is a Windows GUI client for v2ray-core that generates config files and manages proxy servers from the system tray. It also handles W… | 10 | 2024 | maintenance |
| GlowstoneMC/Glowstone Glowstone is a fully open-source Minecraft: Java Edition server written from scratch in Java, with no Mojang code, implementing the Bukkit/… | 56 | 2012 | maintenance |
| Lora-net/LoRaMac-node A reference implementation of a LoRaWAN end-device (node) stack written in C, with example projects for various MCU platforms. It implement… | 23 | 1997 | maintenance |
| armink/FreeModbus_Slave-Master-RTT-STM32 An open-source Modbus protocol stack based on FreeModbus that adds a master mode to the traditionally slave-only library, supporting RTU, A… | 23 | 1992 | maintenance |
| h3xduck/TripleCross TripleCross is a Linux eBPF rootkit demonstrating offensive capabilities of eBPF technology, including library injection, execution hijacki… | 23 | 1986 | maintenance |
| samyk/slipstream NAT Slipstreaming is a security research tool by Samy Kamkar that demonstrates remotely opening arbitrary firewall pinholes through a victi… | 32 | 1984 | maintenance |
| cytopia/pwncat pwncat is a Python-based netcat replacement and reverse/bind shell handler with firewall and IDS/IPS evasion, self-injecting shells, and po… | 23 | 1962 | maintenance |
| KANIKIG/Multi-EasyGost A beginner-friendly interactive shell script that wraps the gost tunnel program to manage encrypted port forwarding and relay tunnels on Li… | 32 | 1948 | maintenance |
| Und3rf10w/kali-anonsurf A port of ParrotSec's anonsurf and pandora modules to Kali Linux, packaged as a deb installer. It routes all system traffic through TOR via… | 84 | 1934 | maintenance |
| OpenDrop OpenDrop is an open-source command-line tool written in Python that implements the Apple AirDrop protocol for sharing files directly over W… | 63 | 9752 | experimental |
| dirkjanm/mitm6 mitm6 is a Python pentesting tool that exploits Windows' default IPv6 configuration by answering DHCPv6 requests, assigning victims a link-… | 23 | 1926 | maintenance |
| sandeepmistry/arduino-LoRa An Arduino library for sending and receiving data over LoRa radios using Semtech SX1276/77/78/79-based modules. It provides a simple API fo… | 32 | 1925 | maintenance |
| 40t/go-sniffer A Go-based command-line packet sniffer that captures network traffic and parses database and application protocols (MySQL, Redis, HTTP, Mon… | 32 | 1900 | maintenance |
| gocraft GoCraft is a Minecraft-like voxel sandbox game written in Go using OpenGL, supporting terrain generation, block placement/removal, movement… | 32 | 1898 | maintenance |
| smartping/smartping SmartPing is an open-source, cross-platform network quality monitoring tool written in Go that measures forward and reverse PING latency be… | 23 | 1897 | maintenance |
| openairplay/open-airplay A collection of libraries implementing Apple's AirPlay protocol, primarily a Java library with a PHP variant, usable programmatically or fr… | 23 | 1890 | maintenance |
| positive-security/send-my Send My is a research tool that transmits arbitrary data through Apple's Find My network by encoding it in BLE public-key broadcasts from a… | 23 | 1887 | maintenance |
| novastone-media/MQTT-Client-Framework A native Objective-C MQTT client framework for iOS, macOS, and tvOS built on CFNetwork with CoreData persistence. It fully implements MQTT … | 23 | 1880 | maintenance |