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A curated list of resources to design, implement and operate computer networks

Curated list of awesome computer networking resources

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Network Design Resources
Cisco Design Zone
Cumulus Networks Validated Design Guides
Juniper Solution Center

Network Implementation / Routing
Free Range Routing IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol daemons for BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, and RIP
VyOS Open source network operating system that can be installed on physical hardware or a virtual machine on your own server, or a cloud platform

Network Implementation / Routing / SD-WAN
Silver Peak SD-WAN Solution(Commercial)

Network Implementation / Switching
snabb 2,975 3 months ago Snabb (formerly "Snabb Switch") is a simple and fast packet networking toolkit

Network Implementation / VPN
Firezone 6,847 7 days ago Open-source VPN server and egress firewall for Linux built on WireGuard. Firezone is easy to set up (all dependencies are bundled thanks to Chef Omnibus), secure, performant, and self hostable
PiVPN Simplest OpenVPN setup and configuration, designed for Raspberry Pi

Network Implementation / Network Services
Pi-Hole Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware
PortNox Network Access Control as a Service (Commercial)
Bunny.net Global Content Delivery Platform

Network Implementation / Network Simulators and Traffic Generators
GNS3 Network software emulator that allows the combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks
Mininet Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop
WANem Wide Area Network Emulator
Ostinato Packet crafter, network traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI
SIPp Free Open Source test tool / traffic generator for the SIP protocol
StarTrinity SIP Tester™ VoIP monitoring and testing tool, VoIP recorder
Multi-Generator 83 about 1 month ago Open source software that provides the ability to perform IP network performance tests and measurements using TCP and UDP/IP traffic
Network-Conditions-Emulator 13 about 3 years ago Artificially limit uplink and downlink bandwidth, delay and loss rate on selected interfaces
snabb 2,975 3 months ago Snabb (formerly "Snabb Switch") is a simple and fast packet networking toolkit
vqfx10k-vagrant 138 about 4 years ago Vagrant files to bring up Juniper virtual QFX instances
Packet Communication Investigator 90 almost 2 years ago import network traffic into a graphtool to analyse packet interactions between machines and network
SafePcap GDPR and NISTIR 8053 Compliance for your Pcap files
Arkime 6,341 2 days ago Arkime augments your current security infrastructure to store and index network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast, indexed access
pyNTM a network traffic modeler written in python 3

Network Implementation / Network Connectivity
Packetfabric Network as a service provider (commercial)
Prosimo Autonomous Multi-Cloud Network (commercial)
Subtelforum Online Map Submarine cables map
Megaport Network as a Service (NaaS) platform (commercial)

Network Operations / Network Change Management
Batfish 1,170 8 days ago Network configuration analysis tool that can find bugs and guarantee the correctness of (planned or current) network configurations
Oxidized 2,816 3 days ago Network device configuration backup tool. It's a replacement
Netshot Network configuration and compliance management software
Jazigo 216 about 1 year ago Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig, oxidized, Sweet
fetchconfig 15 almost 8 years ago fetchconfig is a Perl script for retrieving configuration of multiple devices
sweet 83 over 7 years ago Network device configuration backups and change alerts for the 21st century - inspired by RANCID
stockpiler 41 over 4 years ago Stockpiler gathers network device configurations and stores them in a local Git repository
Jerikan a configuration management system for network teams

Network Operations / Network Automation
Napalm Vendor neutral, cross-platform open source project that provides a unified API to network devices
netmiko 3,621 12 days ago Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices
trigger 551 about 1 year ago Robust network automation toolkit written in Python that was designed for interfacing with network devices
Ansible 63,046 2 days ago IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy by using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems
nornir 1,399 12 days ago Pluggable multi-threaded framework with inventory management to help operate collections of devices
CNaaS-NMS 71 24 days ago Campus Network-as-a-Service - Network Management System. Software to automate management of a campus network (LAN)
pyats pyATS enable network engineers to perform stateful validation of their device operational status
itential.com Low-Code Automation for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Networks(commercial)
AWX 14,088 1 day ago the upstream project for Tower, a commercial derivative of AWX
Unimus Unimus makes Network Automation and Configuration Management easy (commercial)
Blackbox Network automation for the hybrid multi-cloud era (commercial)
Nephio Nephio’s goal is to deliver carrier-grade, simple, open, Kubernetes-based cloud native intent automation and common automation templates
GitNOps 25 about 1 month ago GitNops is an operational framework that takes DevOps best practices used for application development such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to network automation

Network Operations / Network Monitoring
perfSONAR Network measurement toolkit designed to provide federated coverage of paths, and help to establish end-to-end usage expectations
UDPing 75 about 1 year ago Measure latency and packet loss across a link
Vaping 491 4 months ago vaping is a healthy alternative to smokeping
veryflow Continuous network verification system
Forward Networks Network Behavior Analysis (Commercial)
ToDD 237 about 3 years ago Distributed, testing-on-demand system focused on testing network related conditions
pmacct Small set of multi-purpose passive network monitoring tools, including Netflow or IPFIX generation
LibreNMS Network monitoring system that supports automatic discovery, alerting, distributed polling and others
Observium Low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform
Elastiflow 2,487 8 months ago Netflow collector and reporting
vFlow 1,103 3 months ago High-performance, scalable and reliable IPFIX, sFlow and Netflow collector (written in pure Golang)
goFlow 882 about 2 months ago a NetFlow/IPFIX/sFlow collector in Go
BGPAlerter 822 11 days ago Self-configuring BGP monitoring tool
xpresso 77 over 2 years ago the standard pyATS UI dashboard

Network Operations / Security Monitoring
cPacket Performance monitoring solutions that deliver real-time analysis and coverage (Commercial)
Proxmox Mail Gateway Open-source email security solution helping you to protect your mail server against all email threats the moment they emerge
FastNetMon DDoS detection tool (Open Source or Commercial)
PyREBox 1,654 9 months ago Python scriptable Reverse Engineering Sandbox, a Virtual Machine instrumentation and inspection framework based on QEMU
Canary Honeypot solution (commercial)
CanaryTokens Free honeytoken
Malcolm 360 9 days ago Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network traffic analysis tool suite for full packet capture artifacts (PCAP files) and Zeek logs
Zeek Zeek is an open source network security monitoring tool

Network Operations / Security Monitoring / Zeek
zeek2es 35 over 2 years ago A Zeek log to Elastic/OpenSearch log converter

Network Operations / Security Monitoring
DrKeithJones.com Keith Jones' blog on cyber security and security monitoring

Network Operations / Network Inventory
phpipam Open-source web IP address management application (IPAM)
nsot 400 9 months ago Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database
netbox 16,261 8 days ago IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool
ipfabric Network Topology Mapping & Visualization (Commercial)
drawthe.net 1,114 8 months ago Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons

Network Operations / Networking Labs
VIRL Virtual Internet Routing Lab by Cisco
dCloud Fully scripted, customizable environments available almost instantly in the cloud for free
Cisco DevNet Labs Cisco's sandboxing environment
Celery Asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well
Ajenti Manage a remote Linux box at any time using everyday tools like a web terminal, text editor, file manager and others
ProxMox Virtualiation Platform Open-source platform for enterprise virtualization that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform, and easily manages high availability clusters and disaster recovery tools with the built-in web management interface
ops_tcpdump_handler 5 almost 7 years ago Chef Cookbook to test network connectivity
chromaterm 190 about 2 years ago ChromaTerm is a Python module and script used for coloring the output to terminals
telnetmyip.com Simple service that returns your source IP information in a json format
icanhaztraceroute.com Simple service that returns a traceroute back to your source IP
Who is my ISP? Simple service that shows the ISP of an IP
NsLookup.io Simple service that shows all DNS records for a domain name
netshoot 8,689 about 2 months ago a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container
netshoot 8,689 about 2 months ago a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container
DNSlookup Easy DNS lookup Tools
What is my isp tool to find ISP name
netdata 72,075 8 days ago Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring
Grafana Open source software for time series analytics
monit -Small Open Source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems. Monit conducts automatic maintnance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations
Prometheus Open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud
sensu Monitor servers, services, application health, and business KPIs. Collect and analyze custom metrics. Get notified about failures before your users do. Give your business the competitive advantage it deserves. (Open Source or Commercial)
Elasticsearch 1,332 1 day ago Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
LogStash 75 9 days ago Transport and process your logs, events, or other data
Kibana 19,645 6 days ago Analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch
Graylog Parse and enrich logs, wire data, and event data from any data source (Commercial, Free for less than 5GB/day)
ITGlue IT focused documentation solution (Commercial)
Snipe IT Open Source Asset Management tool
Packet Pushers Podcast Podcast about data networking by network architects. Deeply technical & unabashedly nerdy
Risky Business Podcast Features news and in-depth commentary from security industry luminaries
Software Gone Wild Podcast Software Gone Wild is focusing on architectures, solutions and technologies that real networking engineers use in production networks
Cisco DevNet Basics Learn network programmability basics
Cisco Tools List of Cisco tools maintained by Cisco
Juniper Day One Books Day One Books cover networking technologies using step-by-step instructions and practical examples written by working engineers

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