Open Source Perl Networking Software

Net-SNMP provides tools and libraries 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 traps, etc.

SKUDONET Community Edition is an Open Source Load Balancer and Web Application Firewall (WAF) designed for Linux server environments. Formerly known as Zevenet, it is based on Debian 12.8, providing a stable and secure foundation for reliable application delivery and cybersecurity. This edition is suitable for Linux and Windows server deployments (not for mobile platforms), offering advanced Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management with support for up to 250,000 TCP requests per second (L4) and 70,000 HTTPS requests per second (L7). SKUDONET Community Edition includes a full REST JSON API for integration into on-premises or hybrid cloud infrastructures, and it is used in thousands of deployments worldwide. Documentation, administration guides, and API references are available at: https://www.skudonet.com/knowledge-base/

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable ISO image (Live USB Flash Drive) based on Fedora 42 providing easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86_64 systems. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the security professional and network administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in the article: Top 125 Security Tools by INSECURE.ORG are available in the toolkit. An advanced Web User Interface (WUI) is provided for system/network administration, navigation, automation, network monitoring, host geolocation, network analysis and configuration of many network and security applications found within the NST distribution. In the virtual world, NST can be used as a network security analysis, validation and monitoring tool on enterprise virtual servers hosting virtual machines.

RELIANOID is an open core (Debian GNU/Linux based) Application Delivery Controller (ADC) with advanced load balancing features such as Network Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer with SSL offloading, Advance Network Configuration including Virtual Interfaces, VLANs, Bonding with link aggregation, IPv4/IPv6, advanced routing, stateless cluster, web GUI, JSON API and much more! Enterprise Edition Load Balancer is available with extra features such as global service load balancing (gslb), application security including web application firewall (WAF), blacklists, Realtime Blackhole Lists (DNSBL), DDoS protection, stateful clustering, SNMP monitoring, email and SNMP notifications, RBAC, VPN support, and the best Support directly from an expert Team.

The IPCop Firewall is a Linux firewall distribution. It is geared towards home and SOHO users. The IPCop web-interface is very user-friendly and makes usage easy.

Endian Firewall Community (EFW) is a "turn-key" linux security distribution that makes your system a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionalities. The software has been designed for the best usability: very easy to install, use and manage and still greatly flexible. The feature suite includes stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various protocols (HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP) with antivirus support, virus and spam-filtering for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic and a "hassle free" VPN solution (based on both OpenVPN and IPsec).

OSSIM, AlienVault’s Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product, provides event collection, normalization and correlation. For more advanced functionality, AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) builds on OSSIM with these additional capabilities: * Log management * Advanced threat detection with a continuously updated library of pre-built correlation rules * Actionable threat intelligence updates from AlienVault Labs Security Research Team * Rich analytics dashboards and data visualization

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Supports clusters up to 2000 nodes in size.

Ddclient is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on 'Dynamic DNS Network Services' free DNS service. It currently supports a lot of different routers and a few different services. The project moved to github. See https://www.github.com/ddclient/ddclient for support.

Simple Event Correlator (SEC) is a lightweight event correlator for network management, log file monitoring, security management, fraud detection, and other tasks which involve event correlation.

Wellenreiter is a GTK/Perl program that makes the discovery, penetration and auditing of 802.11b wireless networks as easy as possible. All three major wireless cards (Prism2 , Lucent, and Cisco) are supported. Usability is one of the main goal.

This project will serve as a central hosting/bug tracking center for modifications to the SmoothWall.org firewall distribution. Support and information for the "mods" posted here can be found on the SmoothWall.org forums, the SmoothWall.org IRC server, or

IPtools is an all in one package that includes various TCP/IP tools. Server: - FTP - TFTP - Syslog - Web - Remote Command - General UDP server - Multicast server Client utilities: - Multicast client - TFTP client Starting on version 0.2.0, a powerful network connection tools UBridge is added, it can bridge: - VXLAN (newly released) - UDP sessions - NIC card of the PC - Connections to Cisco Router Simulator "GNS3/dynamips" and H3C Router Simulator (LITO/CEN). UBridge can also be used as a Ethernet over UDP tunnel to remote bridge PC's local NIC, VXLAN, UDP proxy etc. Visit the Wiki page for detail. GUI tools include a network monitoring tool PMON, a SNMP and IP scanner. The project aim is to make them as light weight tools that can be directly executed in command prompt without the need of installation. (Except pmon and UBridge to bridge PC's NIC which require Winpcap). The whole package can be put into USB flash and 伴侶highly portable.

IP accounting tools package based on Berkeley Packet Filer mechanism. Continue from BPFT by V.Vorobyev, TRAFD by V.Belekhov & S.Svirid. Use the PCAP library to implement connection to bpf kernel pseudo-device.

SSS is a simple socks server written in perl that implements the SOCKS v5 protocol.

Passive network application response time monitor utilising libpcap packet capture. Maintains session state tracking host response, network round-trip times and end-point/network congestion. Can be configured for many protocols such as http, telnet...

DNSSet is a command line tool that automatically set DNS servers for internet connection. The tool contains a big list of nameservers that can be updated or manually edited.

EHNT is a tool which turns streams of Netflow (version 5) data into something useful and human-readable. (Netflow is a UDP-based traffic reporting protocol created by Cisco, generated by Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, and other routers.)

Check given IP/Host presence in 106 RBLs. Now, you don\'t have to check a lot www sites, just run this script in console.

Simple and easy to use program that helps configuring the network interfaces, allows to have multiple configurations for the same computer and to easy configure NAT for internet sharing.

wp-whois-proxy (wp.cgi) is a total rewrite (perl) of the famous GeekTools Whois Proxy with additional functions, a validated html/css interface, and explicit functions which should make it easier to maintain and expand.

A set of tools (proxy, analyzer, proxy database maintenance tools) in Perl. Of interest to those whose Internet access is blocked or censored. The tools provide an 'abstraction' of uncensored outside services, inside the censoring firewall/proxy.

The ADSL optimizer is an accurate packet scheduling solution for ADSL connections, based on Linux and HTB. The solution guarantees low latency while maintaining full utilization of both upstream and downstream, without wasting link capacity.

ANDReA is a LAMP based system for registration of network clients by using DHCP. Splitting the network into "boot-net" for unregistered users and a "real-net" for registered onses is making it possible to gather server-sided information about users

The Distributed Intrusion Detection System.