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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SukkaW/Koolshare-Clash KoolClash is a Koolshare OpenWrt/LEDE x64 plugin that packages the Clash rule-based proxy tunnel for installation via Koolshare Soft Center… | 10 | 1330 | maintenance |
| salesforce/jarm JARM is an active TLS server fingerprinting tool that generates unique fingerprints of TLS server configurations. It is used to group and i… | 72 | 1323 | maintenance |
| vanhoefm/fragattacks A security testing tool that tests Wi-Fi clients and access points for the FragAttacks fragmentation and aggregation vulnerabilities affect… | 37 | 1321 | maintenance |
| emmericp/ixy ixy is a userspace packet processing framework and network driver for Intel 10 Gbit/s NICs (82599/ixgbe family) and virtio, written from sc… | 32 | 1319 | maintenance |
| LupinTraderIII/LookingGlass LookingGlass is a user-friendly PHP web application that lets the public run network diagnostic commands (ping, traceroute, mtr, host) agai… | 32 | 1317 | maintenance |
| nccgroup/SocksOverRDP A SOCKS4/4a/5 proxy implementation that tunnels traffic over RDP or Citrix (XenApp/XenDesktop) connections using Dynamic Virtual Channels. … | 23 | 1315 | maintenance |
| tass-belgium/picotcp picoTCP is a small-footprint, modular TCP/IP stack written in C for embedded systems and IoT devices. It is portable to many microcontrolle… | 23 | 1312 | maintenance |
| vincentcox/bypass-firewalls-by-DNS-history A shell script that attempts to bypass web application firewalls (like Cloudflare, Incapsula, SUCURI) by finding the origin server IP throu… | 32 | 1311 | maintenance |
| cx9208/bbrplus BBRplus is a modified version of the Linux kernel's BBR TCP congestion control algorithm, originally proposed by dog250, compiled into a 4.… | 10 | 1308 | maintenance |
| sinpolib/sokit Sokit is a GUI tool written in C++ with Qt for sending, receiving, and transferring TCP and UDP packets. It runs on Windows and Linux and i… | 23 | 1292 | maintenance |
| hubert3/iSniff-GPS iSniff-GPS is a passive WiFi sniffing tool that captures SSID probes, ARPs, and MDNS packets from nearby iOS devices to infer their previou… | 32 | 1287 | maintenance |
| entropy1337/infernal-twin Infernal-Wireless is an automated wireless hacking framework written in Python that aids penetration testers in assessing Wi-Fi security. I… | 23 | 1286 | maintenance |
| rbsec/dnscan dnscan is a Python command-line tool that performs DNS subdomain enumeration using wordlists, attempting zone transfers first and falling b… | 32 | 1281 | maintenance |
| Anorov/PySocks PySocks is a Python library that lets you route TCP (and mostly UDP) traffic through SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and HTTP CONNECT proxy servers. It act… | 23 | 1279 | maintenance |
| fusesource/mqtt-client A Java MQTT client library providing blocking, futures-based, and callback APIs for MQTT publish/subscribe messaging. It handles automatic … | 32 | 1276 | maintenance |
| eventlet/eventlet Eventlet is a Python concurrent networking library using greenlet-based coroutines and epoll/libevent for scalable non-blocking I/O with a … | 75 | 1275 | maintenance |
| SECFORCE/Tunna Tunna is a Python toolset that tunnels arbitrary TCP connections over HTTP using a remote webshell and a local SOCKS-capable proxy. It is d… | 32 | 1275 | maintenance |
| darkr4y/geacon Geacon is a Go implementation of CobaltStrike's Beacon implant, built to study the C2 protocol through reverse engineering. It supports com… | 32 | 1265 | maintenance |
| rivermoonlight/gobbledegook Gobbledegook (GGK) is a standalone C/C++ Bluetooth Low Energy GATT server library for Linux, built on BlueZ over D-Bus with Bluetooth Manag… | 32 | 1260 | maintenance |
| Armour/Multiplayer-FPS A multiplayer first-person shooter game built with Unity3D, featuring login/room joining, player models with animations, and shooting gamep… | 32 | 1253 | maintenance |
| mehrdadrad/radvpn RadVPN is a decentralized, full-mesh VPN written in Go that connects nodes directly without a central server, with a built-in router for pa… | 32 | 1251 | maintenance |
| m4n3dw0lf/pythem pythem is a multi-purpose penetration testing framework written in Python 2.7, providing an interactive CLI for security researchers. It bu… | 32 | 1247 | maintenance |
| Exonum Exonum is an extensible open-source Rust framework for building private, permissioned blockchain applications with a custom Byzantine fault… | 23 | 1246 | maintenance |
| yvt/openspades OpenSpades is an open-source, cross-platform compatible client for the voxel first-person shooter Ace of Spades 0.75, written in C++ with O… | 23 | 1245 | maintenance |
| cloudwu/mptun A small C-based peer-to-peer VPN tunnel over UDP that can aggregate multiple network paths between a client and server. It lets users combi… | 32 | 1242 | maintenance |
| kaitoy/pcap4j Pcap4J is a Java library for capturing, crafting, and sending network packets. It wraps native packet capture libraries (libpcap, WinPcap, … | 32 | 1242 | maintenance |
| morrownr/88x2bu-20210702 An out-of-tree Linux kernel driver for USB WiFi adapters based on Realtek RTL8812BU and RTL8822BU chipsets, based on Realtek's v5.13.1 sour… | 75 | 1238 | maintenance |
| abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux A Linux kernel driver for Realtek RTL8812AU/8821AU USB WiFi adapters supporting AC1200 (802.11ac) dual-band wireless. It is built from sour… | 46 | 1238 | maintenance |
| cloudflare/bpftools A toolkit of Python scripts and Linux binaries for analyzing pcap traffic dumps and generating BPF bytecode. Its core purpose is crafting B… | 64 | 1232 | maintenance |
| bryanpkc/corkscrew Corkscrew is a small C command-line tool that tunnels SSH connections through HTTP proxies by acting as an SSH ProxyCommand helper. It supp… | 32 | 1230 | maintenance |
| jzyong/game-server A distributed Java game server framework for chess/card and MMORPG games, providing cluster registry, gateway, hall, game logic, and monito… | 45 | 1228 | maintenance |
| decentralized-identity/ion ION is a public, permissionless Decentralized Identifier (DID) network implementing the Sidetree protocol as a Layer 2 overlay on Bitcoin. … | 23 | 1228 | maintenance |
| anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime A lightweight CLI tool and library that enforces filesystem and network restrictions on arbitrary processes at the OS level without contain… | 85 | 5614 | experimental |
| tcurdt/iProxy An iOS application that runs an HTTP and SOCKS proxy on a jailbreak-free iPhone, letting a laptop share the phone's internet connection wit… | 32 | 1223 | maintenance |
| lidgren/lidgren-network-gen3 Lidgren.Network is a C# networking library for the .NET framework that uses a single UDP socket to provide a simple client-server messaging… | 32 | 1221 | maintenance |
| ANS (Accelerated Network Stack) ANS is a DPDK-native userspace TCP/IP stack written in C, based on the FreeBSD implementation, providing zero-copy mbuf handling and a BSD-… | 23 | 1218 | maintenance |
| ronancpl/HeavenMS HeavenMS is an open-source MapleStory v83 private server emulator built on MapleSolaxia, written in Java. It recreates the classic MapleSto… | 10 | 1214 | maintenance |
| EddieIvan01/iox iox is a Go-based command-line tool for TCP/UDP port forwarding and intranet SOCKS5 proxying, serving as a modern replacement for lcx/ew. I… | 23 | 1208 | maintenance |
| moby/vpnkit VPNKit is a set of OCaml tools and services that provide VPN-friendly networking for HyperKit virtual machines. It translates VM ethernet t… | 58 | 1207 | maintenance |
| Al-Azif/ps4-exploit-host A self-hosted exploit hosting tool for game consoles (PS4, PS5, Vita, Switch, Wii) that serves exploits over a LAN via DNS and HTTP. It can… | 23 | 1205 | maintenance |
| librevault/librevault Librevault is an open-source, peer-to-peer, decentralized file synchronization application written in C++. The client is currently being re… | 10 | 1205 | maintenance |
| p2pool/p2pool P2Pool is a decentralized peer-to-peer Bitcoin mining pool implemented in Python that runs alongside a local bitcoind node. It forms a netw… | 60 | 1202 | maintenance |
| osxfuse/sshfs SSHFS is a FUSE-based filesystem client that mounts remote directories over the SSH File Transfer Protocol. It requires no server-side setu… | 23 | 1201 | maintenance |
| basildane/WakeOnLAN A Windows GUI and command-line application for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets to power on remote machines, plus remote shutdown, sleep, … | 64 | 1200 | maintenance |
| drcoms/drcom-generic An open-source Python reimplementation of the Dr.COM/DrCOM campus network authentication client, with d, p, and x protocol variants. It let… | 32 | 1199 | maintenance |
| yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go Yggdrasil is a lightweight userspace software router implementing an experimental, fully end-to-end encrypted IPv6 overlay network with a s… | 87 | 5443 | experimental |
| trimstray/multitor A shell-based CLI tool that spins up multiple TOR instances and load-balances traffic across them through a single endpoint using HAProxy, … | 32 | 1190 | maintenance |
| barronwaffles/dwc_network_server_emulator A Python-based emulator of Nintendo's discontinued Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection servers, allowing Nintendo DS and Wii games to play online mul… | 32 | 1183 | maintenance |
| DanMcInerney/icebreaker A PowerShell-based penetration testing tool that automates five internal network attacks against Active Directory to obtain plaintext crede… | 32 | 1183 | maintenance |
| Shell Scripts Collection A collection of one-click Linux shell scripts for installing and managing Kcptun (a UDP acceleration tool) and OpenVZ BBR (TCP congestion c… | 23 | 1183 | maintenance |
| FDX100/Auto_Tor_IP_changer A Python CLI tool that automatically rotates your IP address at configurable intervals by leveraging the Tor network's SOCKS proxy (127.0.0… | 32 | 1180 | maintenance |
| Spooks4576/Ghost_ESP Ghost ESP is open-source ESP32 firmware (written in C on ESP-IDF) that turns 45+ ESP32 boards into a wireless security testing platform cov… | 10 | 1180 | maintenance |
| dec0dOS/zero-ui ZeroUI is a web user interface for managing a self-hosted ZeroTier network controller, built as a React single-page application with a Node… | 62 | 1178 | maintenance |
| SpiderLabs/HostHunter HostHunter is a Python CLI recon tool that maps IPv4/IPv6 targets to virtual hostnames using OSINT and active reconnaissance techniques suc… | 23 | 1172 | maintenance |
| tuanpmt/esp_mqtt A fully functional MQTT client library written in C for the ESP8266 microcontroller, ported from a Contiki MQTT client. It supports subscri… | 23 | 1171 | maintenance |
| esp-homekit A C library implementing an Apple HomeKit accessory server for ESP8266 microcontrollers, built for esp-open-rtos with ESP-IDF 4.x/5.x suppo… | 32 | 1168 | maintenance |
| kbandla/dpkt dpkt is a Python library for fast, simple network packet creation and parsing, with definitions for basic TCP/IP protocols. It is commonly … | 23 | 1164 | maintenance |
| aircrack-ng/rtl8188eus An out-of-tree Linux/Android kernel driver for Realtek RTL8188eus/eu/etv WiFi chipsets, maintained under the Aircrack-ng organization. It a… | 32 | 1163 | maintenance |
| ivanilves/xiringuito Xiringuito is a shell-script-based SSH tunneling tool that provides VPN-like access to remote networks without running a VPN server. It use… | 23 | 1163 | maintenance |
| loseys/BlackMamba BlackMamba is a Python/Qt-based Command and Control (C2) framework for post-exploitation that manages multiple client connections simultane… | 10 | 1162 | maintenance |
| bittorrent/libutp libutp is a C++ library implementing the uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP), a TCP-like reliable transport over UDP based on LEDBAT congesti… | 32 | 1159 | maintenance |
| kkkgo/vlmcsd vlmcsd is a portable open-source KMS emulator written in C that replaces Microsoft's KMS server, bundled with a vlmcs test client. It runs … | 23 | 1159 | maintenance |
| morrownr/8821au-20210708 An out-of-kernel Linux driver (kernel module) for USB WiFi adapters based on the Realtek RTL8811AU and RTL8821AU chipsets, based on Realtek… | 75 | 1148 | maintenance |
| oznu/docker-cloudflare-ddns A small Alpine Linux based Docker image that uses Cloudflare's DNS API as a Dynamic DNS (DDNS) provider, keeping DNS records updated with y… | 10 | 1148 | maintenance |
| basecamp/xip-pdns A PowerDNS pipe backend adapter written in Shell that powered xip.io, a wildcard DNS service resolving any hostname containing an IP addres… | 10 | 1146 | maintenance |
| leechristensen/SpoolSample SpoolSample is a C# proof-of-concept tool that coerces Windows hosts to authenticate to arbitrary machines via the MS-RPRN Print System Rem… | 32 | 1143 | maintenance |
| nfqws nfqws-keenetic provides packages and installation scripts for deploying the nfqws DPI-bypass tool on Keenetic/Netcraze routers with Entware… | 80 | 1142 | maintenance |
| shunf4/proxychains-windows A Windows and Cygwin port of proxychains that forces dynamically linked Win32 or Cygwin programs' TCP connections through one or more SOCKS… | 23 | 1142 | maintenance |
| cw1997/NATBypass NATBypass is a Go implementation of the lcx/htran port-forwarding tool that establishes TCP reverse tunnels for NAT traversal. It supports … | 60 | 1140 | maintenance |
| PHZ76/RtspServer A lightweight RTSP server and pusher library written in C++11. It supports H.264/H.265 video and G711A/AAC audio streaming over unicast (RT… | 23 | 1133 | maintenance |
| Disaster Radio Disaster Radio is a work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless mesh network project for disaster recovery, powered by solar energy… | 57 | 1132 | maintenance |
| Kuingsmile/clash-core A backup fork of Clash, a rule-based network tunnel written in Go that proxies traffic through protocols like Shadowsocks, VMess, Trojan, a… | 18 | 1132 | maintenance |
| ehazlett/stellar Stellar is a simplified container runtime cluster system built on containerd, written in Go. It joins one or more nodes into an eventually … | 23 | 1131 | maintenance |
| hash3liZer/WiFiBroot WiFiBroot is a Python 2 command-line tool for wireless (WPA/WPA2) penetration testing that captures and cracks 4-way handshakes and PMKID k… | 23 | 1131 | maintenance |
| samyk/keysweeper KeySweeper is an open-source, open-hardware Arduino-based device disguised as a USB wall charger that passively sniffs, decrypts, and logs … | 32 | 1126 | maintenance |
| pixel-point/kube-forwarder Kube Forwarder is an open-source Electron desktop app that manages Kubernetes port forwarding with a graphical interface. It lets users boo… | 23 | 1126 | maintenance |
| rossmann-engineering/EasyModbusTCP.NET A .NET library implementing Modbus TCP, UDP, and RTU client and server communication. It enables fast access to PLCs and other industrial a… | 23 | 1126 | maintenance |
| seashell/drago Drago is a flexible configuration manager for WireGuard that provides a unified control plane for building secure network overlays across h… | 23 | 1120 | maintenance |
| emmericp/MoonGen MoonGen is a scriptable high-speed packet generator built on DPDK and LuaJIT that can saturate 10 Gbit/s Ethernet links with 64-byte packet… | 53 | 1118 | maintenance |
| google/ssl_logger A Python command-line tool that decrypts and logs a running process's SSL/TLS traffic, mimicking Echo Mirage's SSL logging on Linux and mac… | 10 | 1118 | maintenance |
| ihciah/clean-dns-bpf A Rust + eBPF/XDP tool that drops GFW DNS poisoning packets at the kernel level, allowing clean DNS resolution from 8.8.8.8 without a proxy… | 23 | 1115 | maintenance |
| francoismichel/ssh3 SSH3 is a research-driven reimplementation of the SSH protocol that runs remote terminal sessions over QUIC, TLS 1.3, and HTTP/3. It offers… | 18 | 5013 | experimental |
| piscisaureus/wepoll wepoll is a small C library that implements the Linux epoll API on Windows, enabling scalable socket event notification. It is distributed … | 32 | 1113 | maintenance |
| saghul/pyuv pyuv is a Python binding for libuv, the high-performance asynchronous I/O and platform abstraction library behind Node.js. It exposes non-b… | 10 | 1107 | maintenance |
| cwalter-at/freemodbus FreeModbus is a BSD-licensed Modbus ASCII/RTU and Modbus TCP slave (server) implementation for embedded systems, implementing the Modbus Ap… | 66 | 1099 | maintenance |
| Dinnerbone/mcstatus A Python library for checking the status of Minecraft servers, including player counts and latency. This repository has moved to py-mine/mc… | 23 | 1093 | maintenance |
| NModbus/NModbus NModbus is a C# (.NET) library implementing the Modbus protocol, supporting serial ASCII, serial RTU, TCP, and UDP transports. It enables c… | 69 | 1091 | maintenance |
| arboliva/AirChat AirChat is a free communication tool that transmits messages over radio waves or audio without requiring internet or cellular infrastructur… | 32 | 1087 | maintenance |
| Leeon123/CC-attack A Python3 command-line tool that performs Layer 7 HTTP/HTTPS flood (CC) attacks through SOCKS4/5 or HTTP proxies, with multithreading, rand… | 23 | 1085 | maintenance |
| sysdream/chashell Chashell is a Go-based reverse shell that tunnels communication over DNS, paired with a multi-client control server called chaserv. All tra… | 32 | 1083 | maintenance |
| njh/EtherCard EtherCard is an Arduino library providing an IPv4 Ethernet driver for the Microchip ENC28J60 chip over SPI. It offers high-level routines f… | 23 | 1082 | maintenance |
| WassimBenzarti/colab-ssh A lightweight Python library that sets up an SSH tunnel to a remote Jupyter notebook environment like Google Colab, optionally integrating … | 23 | 1077 | maintenance |
| ToyoDAdoubiBackup/doubi A collection of one-click Bash installation and management scripts for Linux servers, primarily for proxy tools like Shadowsocks/Shadowsock… | 32 | 1076 | maintenance |
| iphelix/dnschef DNSChef is a highly configurable DNS proxy (fake DNS) tool written in Python for penetration testers and malware analysts. It can forge DNS… | 32 | 1075 | maintenance |
| AHXR/ghost Ghost is a lightweight Remote Access Trojan (RAT) written in C++ that gives an attacker silent remote command-line access to Windows machin… | 23 | 1071 | maintenance |
| cjb/GitTorrent GitTorrent is a peer-to-peer network that shares Git repositories over BitTorrent, acting as a decentralized alternative to GitHub. It inte… | 32 | 4761 | experimental |
| FeeiCN/ESD ESD is a Python-based subdomain enumeration tool that brute-forces and collects subdomains for a given domain. It uses AsyncIO/aioDNS for f… | 10 | 1068 | maintenance |
| gfodor/p2pcf P2PCF is a JavaScript library that provides low-cost, serverless WebRTC signalling using a Cloudflare Worker and R2 bucket. It offers room-… | 23 | 1064 | maintenance |
| nsacyber/GRASSMARLIN GRASSMARLIN is a Java-based desktop application from NSA that provides IP network situational awareness for Industrial Control Systems (ICS… | 10 | 1059 | maintenance |
| twitchyliquid64/subnet Subnet is a simple, auditable VPN server and client written in Go, using TLS mutual authentication and TUN interfaces to route traffic. It … | 10 | 1057 | maintenance |