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Network Resources
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 | 2,978 | about 2 years ago | Snabb (formerly "Snabb Switch") is a simple and fast packet networking toolkit |
Network Implementation / VPN | |||
| Firezone | 6,900 | almost 2 years 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 | 84 | almost 2 years 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 | almost 5 years ago | Artificially limit uplink and downlink bandwidth, delay and loss rate on selected interfaces |
| snabb | 2,978 | about 2 years ago | Snabb (formerly "Snabb Switch") is a simple and fast packet networking toolkit |
| vqfx10k-vagrant | 136 | almost 6 years ago | Vagrant files to bring up Juniper virtual QFX instances |
| Packet Communication Investigator | 90 | almost 4 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 | 6,418 | almost 2 years 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 | 1,180 | almost 2 years ago | Network configuration analysis tool that can find bugs and guarantee the correctness of (planned or current) network configurations |
| Oxidized | 2,835 | almost 2 years ago | Network device configuration backup tool. It's a replacement |
| Netshot | Network configuration and compliance management software | ||
| Jazigo | 217 | almost 3 years ago | Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig, oxidized, Sweet |
| fetchconfig | 15 | over 9 years ago | fetchconfig is a Perl script for retrieving configuration of multiple devices |
| sweet | 83 | over 9 years ago | Network device configuration backups and change alerts for the 21st century - inspired by RANCID |
| stockpiler | 41 | over 6 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 | 3,646 | almost 2 years ago | Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices |
| trigger | 552 | almost 3 years ago | Robust network automation toolkit written in Python that was designed for interfacing with network devices |
| Ansible | 63,373 | almost 2 years 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 | 1,410 | almost 2 years ago | Pluggable multi-threaded framework with inventory management to help operate collections of devices |
| CNaaS-NMS | 72 | almost 2 years 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 | 14,148 | almost 2 years 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 | almost 2 years 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 | almost 3 years ago | Measure latency and packet loss across a link |
| Vaping | 491 | about 2 years ago | vaping is a healthy alternative to smokeping |
| veryflow | Continuous network verification system | ||
| Forward Networks | Network Behavior Analysis (Commercial) | ||
| ToDD | 237 | almost 5 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 | 2,494 | over 2 years ago | Netflow collector and reporting |
| vFlow | 1,107 | about 2 years ago | High-performance, scalable and reliable IPFIX, sFlow and Netflow collector (written in pure Golang) |
| goFlow | 889 | almost 2 years ago | a NetFlow/IPFIX/sFlow collector in Go |
| BGPAlerter | 833 | almost 2 years ago | Self-configuring BGP monitoring tool |
| xpresso | 78 | over 4 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 | 1,656 | over 2 years ago | Python scriptable Reverse Engineering Sandbox, a Virtual Machine instrumentation and inspection framework based on QEMU |
| Canary | Honeypot solution (commercial) | ||
| CanaryTokens | Free honeytoken | ||
| Malcolm | 368 | almost 2 years 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 | about 4 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 | over 2 years ago | Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database |
| netbox | 16,470 | almost 2 years ago | IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool |
| ipfabric | Network Topology Mapping & Visualization (Commercial) | ||
| drawthe.net | 1,117 | over 2 years 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 | ||
Related resources / DevNet Tools | |||
| 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 9 years ago | Chef Cookbook to test network connectivity |
| chromaterm | 191 | almost 4 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 | 8,789 | almost 2 years ago | a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container |
| netshoot | 8,789 | almost 2 years ago | a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container |
| DNSlookup | Easy DNS lookup Tools | ||
| What is my isp | tool to find ISP name | ||
Related resources / DevNet Monitoring | |||
| netdata | 72,607 | almost 2 years 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) | ||
Related resources / DevNet Monitoring / ELK Stack | |||
| Elasticsearch | 71,007 | almost 2 years ago | Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine |
| LogStash | 14,293 | almost 2 years ago | Transport and process your logs, events, or other data |
| Kibana | 20,016 | almost 2 years ago | Analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch |
Related resources / DevNet Monitoring | |||
| Graylog | Parse and enrich logs, wire data, and event data from any data source (Commercial, Free for less than 5GB/day) | ||
Related resources / DevNet Knowledgebase | |||
| ITGlue | IT focused documentation solution (Commercial) | ||
Related resources / DevNet Inventory | |||
| Snipe IT | Open Source Asset Management tool | ||
Related resources / Knowledge Resources | |||
| 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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