Projects tagged ‘internet’, ‘linux’, and ‘networking’

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. (Wireshark was known as Ethereal until June 09, 2006)

Snort® is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system using a flexible rule-driven language, which combines the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection methods. With millions of downloads to date, Snort is ... [More] the most widely deployed intrusion detection and prevention technology worldwide and has become the de facto standard for the industry. [Less]

The NET-SNMP (formerly UCD-SNMP) package contains various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP ... [More] traps, a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP and a Tk/perl mib browser. It was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University SNMP implementation (version 2.1.2.1), but has been greatly enhanced, ported and fixed and barely resembles the original package anymore. [Less]

Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and will take full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems.

InspIRCd is a modular C++ IRC Daemon (ircd) for Linux, BSD and Windows systems created to provide a stable, modern, lightweight irc server from scratch and provide a vast number of features in a modularised form using an advanced module API. By ... [More] keeping the functionality of the main core to a minimum we hope to increase the stability and speed of our project and make it customisable to the needs of many users. InspIRCd is designed primarily to be a custom irc server for the chatspike irc network (irc.chatspike.net) but we are releasing it into the public domain under GPL so that you may benefit yourself from our work. The project is written from scratch, avoiding the inherent instability under large loads which can be seen in many other irc server distributions. [Less]

Ettercap is a network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet LANs. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones, like SSH and HTTPS). Data injection in an established connection and filtering on the fly is also ... [More] possible, keeping the connection synchronized. Many sniffing modes were implemented to give you a powerful and complete sniffing suite. Plugins are supported. It has the ability to check whether you are in a switched LAN or not, and to use OS fingerprints (active or passive) to let you know the geometry of the LAN. [Less]

KVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit. KVIrc is being written by Szymon Stefanek and the KVIrc Development Team with the contribution of many IRC addicted developers around the world.

Alvaro's Messenger is a Tcl/Tk client for MSN Messenger. Its features include multi-language support, smileys, docking support for KDE 3 and GNOME 2 (FreeDesktop compatibility), logging, profiles support, email notification, customizable sounds ... [More] , group management, file transfers with NAT support, and proxy support. Some special features include the possibility of knowing who has deleted you from his/her list, connecting "silently" (appearing invisible), and so on. [Less]

Endian Firewall Community is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality. The software has been de signed with "usability in mind" and is ... [More] very easy to install, use and manage, without losing its flexibility. The features include a stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spamfiltering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on OpenVPN). The main advantage of Endian Firewall is that it is a pure "Open Source" solution that is sponsored by Endian. [Less]

IPCop Linux is a complete Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to protect the networks on which it is installed.

Firestarter is a firewall tool for Linux, and uses GNOME. You can use the wizard to create a basic firewall, then streamline it further using the dynamic rules. You can open and close ports with a few clicks, or stealth your services giving access ... [More] only to a select few. It features a real-time hit monitor which you can watch as attackers probe your machine for open ports. [Less]

emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version. emesene most interesting features are: ... [More] * Clean and easy to use Interface? with no ads * File transfers (almost done) * Custom emoticons sending/receiving/stealing * Tabbed chatting * Multilingual interface * Great customization * Plugins support * Messenger Plus! formatting tags support * Powerful Chat logging * All the other basic Windows Live Messenger features [Less]

Openswan is an Open Source implementation of IPsec for the Linux operating system. Is it a code fork of the FreeS/WAN project, started by a few of the developers who were growing frustrated with the politics surrounding the FreeS/WAN project.

Phex is a cross-platform P2P filesharing client which is based on the Gnutella network. It offers advanced functions and integrates all common Gnutella extensions like * the Download Mesh and Partial File Sharing for decentral swarming ... [More] downloads from multiple sources * Dynamic Querying and the Query Routing Protocol for improved search and network performance * UDP Host Caching for better connectivity and many other optimizations. [Less]

KMess is an alternative MSN Messenger chat client for Linux. It allows Linux users to chat with friends who use MSN Messenger in Windows or Mac OS. The strength of KMess is it's integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus on MSN Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.

Prelude is an Hybrid IDS framework, that is, it is a product that enable all available security application, be it opensource or proprietary, to report to a centralized system. In order to achieve this task, Prelude relies on the IDMEF (Intrusion ... [More] Detection Message Exchange Format) IETF standard, that enables different kinds of sensors to generate events using an unified language. Prelude benefits from its ability to find traces of malicious activity from different sensors (Snort, honeyd, Nessus Vulnerability Scanner, Samhain, over 30 types of systems logs, and many others) in order to better verify an attack and in the end to perform automatic correlation between the various events. Prelude is commited to providing an Hybrid IDS that offers the ability to unify currently available tools. [Less]

IPFire is new-developed firewall build with the latest releases of linux 2.6 and tools. You are able to install a lot of addons and you will see a firewall can become a home server.

Wellenreiter is a GTK/Perl wireless network discovery and auditing tool. Prism2, Lucent, and Cisco based cards are supported. It is the easiest to use Linux scanning tool. No card configuration has to be done anymore. The whole look and feel is ... [More] pretty self-explaining. It can discover networks (BSS/IBSS), and detects ESSID broadcasting or non-broadcasting networks and their WEP capabilities and the manufacturer automatically. DHCP and ARP traffic are decoded and displayed to give you further information about the networks. An ethereal/tcpdump-compatible dumpfile and an Application savefile will be automaticly created. gpsd can be used to track the location of the discovered networks. [Less]

Ayttm is an open source, multi-protocol instant messenger. It is built using C and Gtk-2 and works across multiple platforms.

strongSwan is an OpenSource IPsec implementation for the Linux operating system. It is based on the discontinued FreeS/WAN project and the X.509 patch which we developed over the last three years. It features IKEv1 and IKEv2 keying capabilities and targets Linux 2.6 native IPsec.

Anytun is an implementation of the secure anycast tunneling protocol. It uses an easy openvpn style interface and makes it possible to build redundant vpn clusters with load balancing between servers. VPN Servers share a single IP address. Adding and ... [More] removing VPN Servers is done by the routing protocol, so no client changes have to be made when additional VPN Servers are added or removed. It is possible to realise global load balancing based on shortest BGP routes, by simply announcing the address space of the tunnel servers at multiple locations. [Less]

Hardened Linux is a secured and minimalized operating system designed to run as a firewall, IDS host, authentication system and VPN gateway.

Java Instant Message (IM) Library, Client and Tools. Flexible framework to design your own IM client or bots. Supports AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, SMS. Fully functional GUI with spell checking and a lot more. Includes a web interface for remote/cell access.

JMeeting is a next generation type of business or personal meeting. JMeeting will have audio, video and chat conferencing easily set up and viewable. JMeeting will be able to share and create presentations. During the meeting you can click present ... [More] and it will present the presentation or document full screen to all users with a red laser to show important points. [Less]

SME Server is a leading distribution for small and medium enterprises. It stands apart from the competition by shipping with most common functionality preconfigured and features a number of popular additional enhancements in the form of ... [More] downloadable 'contributions'. It is published under the GPL license and while freely available, a small donation is requested. [Less]

This is a piece of software that lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS server. This can be usable in different situations where internet access is firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed. It runs on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD ... [More] and needs a TUN/TAP device. The bandwidth is assymetrical with limited upstream and up to 1 Mbit/s downstream. [Less]

ITVal is an open source utility for testing, and debugging iptables firewall policies. It can detect many different kinds of errors, such as typos, out-of-order rules, faulty understanding of the firewall, or poor assumptions about the policy logic. ... [More] ITVal can also generate a "policy map" that illustrates how the firewall treats various groups of hosts on the network. This grouping is automatically calculated from the policy and can make it very easy to spot anomalies in the policy. Current development on ITVal focuses on ways to partially automate repair of the policy. [Less]

Vulpes is an access management system for gateways and proxies. Vulpes consists of two components: - Vulpes vulpes - the backend, written in PHP - Vulpes corsac - the frontend, written in Adobe Flex The latest stable version is Vulpes 0.3.1 ... [More] Features: - Authentication through Captive Portal - Access control using IP & MAC - Client management - Plan management - Register various contracts per client - Bandwith control through HTB - Schedules for internet access Finance: - Registers various bank accounts - Prints bills - Automatically blocks non-payers - Calculates fines for overdue payments Tools: - Ping local network from browser - ARP from browser [Less]

Un framework en PHP escrito en español. --- A PHP framework in spanish.

OpenBox4 is a project that aims at creating an alternative firmware for the Neuf Box 4 (the DSL gateway/router from Neuf Cegetel, the second largest ISP in France).