Projects

Wireshark

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)

Nmap Security Scanner

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what ... [More] services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. [Less]

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain)

BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System, including a Domain Name System server, a Domain Name System resolver library and ... [More] tools for verifying the proper operation of the DNS server. [Less]

tcpdump

Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface that match the boolean expression.

GNU netcat

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich ... [More] network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. [Less]

iptables

iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x IPv4 packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards system administrators.

OpenWrt

OpenWrt is described as a Linux distribution for embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configuration provided by the vendor and allows you to ... [More] customize the device through the use of packages to suit any application. [Less]

Snort

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 the most widely deployed intrusion detection and ... [More] prevention technology worldwide and has become the de facto standard for the industry. [Less]

pf

PF (Packet Filter) is OpenBSD's system for filtering TCP/IP traffic, doing Network Address Translation, normalizing and conditioning TCP/IP traffic and providing bandwidth control and packet prioritization. PF has also been ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD, and is an integral part of MirBSD.

iproute2

Iproute2 is a collection of utilities for controlling TCP / IP networking and traffic control in Linux.