awesome-networking

IP routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms which includes protocol daemons for BGP, IS-IS, LDP, OSPF, PIM, and RIP

Open source network operating system that can be installed on physical hardware or a virtual machine on your own server, or a cloud platform

SD-WAN Solution(Commercial)

snabb

Snabb (formerly "Snabb Switch") is a simple and fast packet networking toolkit

Firezone

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

Simplest OpenVPN setup and configuration, designed for Raspberry Pi

Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware

Network Access Control as a Service (Commercial)

Global Content Delivery Platform

Network software emulator that allows the combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks

Instant Virtual Network on your Laptop

Wide Area Network Emulator

Packet crafter, network traffic generator and analyzer with a friendly GUI

Free Open Source test tool / traffic generator for the SIP protocol

VoIP monitoring and testing tool, VoIP recorder

Multi-Generator

Open source software that provides the ability to perform IP network performance tests and measurements using TCP and UDP/IP traffic

Network-Conditions-Emulator

Artificially limit uplink and downlink bandwidth, delay and loss rate on selected interfaces

snabb

Snabb (formerly "Snabb Switch") is a simple and fast packet networking toolkit

vqfx10k-vagrant

Vagrant files to bring up Juniper virtual QFX instances

Packet Communication Investigator

import network traffic into a graphtool to analyse packet interactions between machines and network

GDPR and NISTIR 8053 Compliance for your Pcap files

Arkime

Arkime augments your current security infrastructure to store and index network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast, indexed access

a network traffic modeler written in python 3

Network as a service provider (commercial)

Autonomous Multi-Cloud Network (commercial)

Submarine cables map

Network as a Service (NaaS) platform (commercial)

Batfish

Network configuration analysis tool that can find bugs and guarantee the correctness of (planned or current) network configurations

Oxidized

Network device configuration backup tool. It's a replacement

Network configuration and compliance management software

Jazigo

Jazigo is a tool written in Go for retrieving configuration for multiple devices, similar to rancid, fetchconfig, oxidized, Sweet

fetchconfig

fetchconfig is a Perl script for retrieving configuration of multiple devices

sweet

Network device configuration backups and change alerts for the 21st century - inspired by RANCID

stockpiler

Stockpiler gathers network device configurations and stores them in a local Git repository

a configuration management system for network teams

Vendor neutral, cross-platform open source project that provides a unified API to network devices

netmiko

Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices

trigger

Robust network automation toolkit written in Python that was designed for interfacing with network devices

Ansible

IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy by using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems

nornir

Pluggable multi-threaded framework with inventory management to help operate collections of devices

CNaaS-NMS

Campus Network-as-a-Service - Network Management System. Software to automate management of a campus network (LAN)

pyATS enable network engineers to perform stateful validation of their device operational status

Low-Code Automation for Physical, Virtual, and Cloud Networks(commercial)

AWX

the upstream project for Tower, a commercial derivative of AWX

Unimus makes Network Automation and Configuration Management easy (commercial)

Network automation for the hybrid multi-cloud era (commercial)

Nephio’s goal is to deliver carrier-grade, simple, open, Kubernetes-based cloud native intent automation and common automation templates

GitNOps

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 measurement toolkit designed to provide federated coverage of paths, and help to establish end-to-end usage expectations

UDPing

Measure latency and packet loss across a link

Vaping

vaping is a healthy alternative to smokeping

Continuous network verification system

Network Behavior Analysis (Commercial)

ToDD

Distributed, testing-on-demand system focused on testing network related conditions

Small set of multi-purpose passive network monitoring tools, including Netflow or IPFIX generation

Network monitoring system that supports automatic discovery, alerting, distributed polling and others

Low-maintenance auto-discovering network monitoring platform

Elastiflow

Netflow collector and reporting

vFlow

High-performance, scalable and reliable IPFIX, sFlow and Netflow collector (written in pure Golang)

goFlow

a NetFlow/IPFIX/sFlow collector in Go

BGPAlerter

Self-configuring BGP monitoring tool

xpresso

the standard pyATS UI dashboard

Performance monitoring solutions that deliver real-time analysis and coverage (Commercial)

Open-source email security solution helping you to protect your mail server against all email threats the moment they emerge

DDoS detection tool (Open Source or Commercial)

PyREBox

Python scriptable Reverse Engineering Sandbox, a Virtual Machine instrumentation and inspection framework based on QEMU

Honeypot solution (commercial)

Free honeytoken

Malcolm

Malcolm is a powerful, easily deployable network traffic analysis tool suite for full packet capture artifacts (PCAP files) and Zeek logs

Zeek is an open source network security monitoring tool

zeek2es

A Zeek log to Elastic/OpenSearch log converter

Keith Jones' blog on cyber security and security monitoring

Open-source web IP address management application (IPAM)

nsot

Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database

netbox

IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool

Network Topology Mapping & Visualization (Commercial)

drawthe.net

Draws network diagrams dynamically from a text file describing the placement, layout and icons

Virtual Internet Routing Lab by Cisco

Fully scripted, customizable environments available almost instantly in the cloud for free

Cisco's sandboxing environment

Asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well

Manage a remote Linux box at any time using everyday tools like a web terminal, text editor, file manager and others

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

Chef Cookbook to test network connectivity

chromaterm

ChromaTerm is a Python module and script used for coloring the output to terminals

Simple service that returns your source IP information in a json format

Simple service that returns a traceroute back to your source IP

Simple service that shows the ISP of an IP

Simple service that shows all DNS records for a domain name

netshoot

a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container

netshoot

a Docker + Kubernetes network trouble-shooting swiss-army container

Easy DNS lookup Tools

tool to find ISP name

netdata

Distributed real-time performance and health monitoring

Open source software for time series analytics

-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

Open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud

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

Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

LogStash

Transport and process your logs, events, or other data

Kibana

Analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch

Parse and enrich logs, wire data, and event data from any data source (Commercial, Free for less than 5GB/day)

IT focused documentation solution (Commercial)

Open Source Asset Management tool

Podcast about data networking by network architects. Deeply technical & unabashedly nerdy

Features news and in-depth commentary from security industry luminaries

Software Gone Wild is focusing on architectures, solutions and technologies that real networking engineers use in production networks

Learn network programmability basics

List of Cisco tools maintained by Cisco

Day One Books cover networking technologies using step-by-step instructions and practical examples written by working engineers