Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch. It is designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag).

C library implementation of RaptorQ Forward Error Correction for Librecast. RFC6330 (IETF) describes the RaptorQ proposed standard, which LCRQ more-or-less follows. The primary focus has been on building a fast, simple and dependency-free FEC implementation for use with Librecast, and not on strict standards compliance. The code does, however, fairly closely follow the RFC.

bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking-related statistics and prepare them visually in a human-friendly way. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.

parprouted is a daemon for transparent IP (Layer 3) proxy ARP bridging. Unlike standard bridging, proxy ARP bridging can bridge Ethernet networks behind wireless nodes. Normal layer 2 bridging does not work between wireless nodes because wireless does not know about MAC addresses used in the wired Ethernet networks. This daemon can also be useful for making transparent firewalls.

This library provides methods for using the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP) in a Go application.

Net::DNS::Resolver::Mock is a subclass of Net::DNS::Resolver, but returns static data from any provided DNS zone file instead of querying the network. It is intended primarily for use in testing.

Zyre provides reliable group messaging over local area networks using zeromq. It has these key characteristics:

• Zyre needs no administration or configuration.

• Peers may join and leave the network at any time.

• Peers talk to each other without any central brokers or servers.

• Peers can talk directly to each other.

• Peers can join groups, and then talk to groups.

• Zyre is reliable, and loses no messages even when the network is heavily loaded.

• Zyre is fast and has low latency, requiring no consensus protocols.

• Zyre is designed for WiFi networks, yet also works well on Ethernet networks.

ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range. By giving a second netmask, you can design subnets and supernets. It is also intended to be a teaching tool and presents the subnetting results as easy-to-understand binary values.

NNG project is a rewrite of the scalability protocols library known as libnanomsg, and adds significant new capabilities, while retaining compatibility with the original. It is a lightweight, broker-less library, offering a simple API to solve common recurring messaging problems, such as publish/subscribe, RPC-style request/reply, or service discovery.

dnstracer determines where a given Domain Name Server (DNS) gets its information from, and follows the chain of DNS servers back to the servers which know the data.

This package provides header-only C++ bindings for ØMQ. The header files contain direct mappings of the abstractions provided by the ØMQ C API.

BIRD is an Internet routing daemon with full support for all the major routing protocols. It allows redistribution between protocols with a powerful route filtering syntax and an easy-to-use configuration interface.

The lksctp-tools project provides a user-space library for SCTP (libsctp) and C language header files (netinet/sctp.h) for accessing SCTP-specific APIs not provided by the standard sockets. It also includes some SCTP-related helper utilities.

YAZ is a C/C++ library for information retrieval applications using Z39.50, SRU or Solr Web Service protocols for information retrieval. It also offers ZOOM API implementing them.

nm-tray is a network connection management tool (NetworkManager front-end) with an information icon residing in the system tray. Unlike nm-applet, which is part of GNOME, this application is desktop-unaware.

This package is a fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls.

Features:

• TCP & UDP support

• User management API

• TCP Fast Open

• Workers and graceful restart

• Destination IP blacklist

This package provides a wireless network and device detector, sniffer, wardriving tool, and WIDS (wireless intrusion detection) framework. Kismet works with Wi-Fi interfaces, Bluetooth interfaces, some SDR (software defined radio) hardware like the RTLSDR, and other specialized capture hardware

OpenRDAP is a command line client for the Registration Data Access Protocol. RDAP is modern a replacement for WHOIS, which provides domain name and IP address registration information in JSON format over HTTP.

SRT is a transport technology that optimizes streaming performance across unpredictable networks, such as the Internet.

This package contains a variety of tools for dealing with network configuration, troubleshooting, or servers. Utilities included are:

arping

Ping hosts using ARP.

clockdiff

Compute time difference between network hosts using ICMP TSTAMP messages.

ninfod

Daemon that responds to IPv6 Node Information Queries.

ping

Use ICMP ECHO messages to measure round-trip delays and packet loss across network paths.

rarpd

Answer RARP requests from clients.

rdisc

Populate network routing tables with information from the ICMP router discovery protocol.

tftpd

Trivial file transfer protocol server.

tracepath

Trace network path to an IPv4 or IPv6 address and discover MTU along the way.

Nload is a console application which monitors network traffic and bandwidth usage in real time. It visualizes the in- and outgoing traffic using two graphs, and provides additional info like total amount of transferred data and min/max network usage.

NNG project is a rewrite of the scalability protocols library known as libnanomsg, and adds significant new capabilities, while retaining compatibility with the original. It is a lightweight, broker-less library, offering a simple API to solve common recurring messaging problems, such as publish/subscribe, RPC-style request/reply, or service discovery.

Slurm is a network load monitor. It shows real-time traffic statistics from any network device in any of three ASCII graph formats.

This package provides a modern, but Linux-specific implementation of the traceroute command that can be used to follow the route taken by packets on an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host. Compared to other implementations, this traceroute command allows some traces for unprivileged users.