gosnmp vs buffstreams

gosnmp

An SNMP library written in Go (by gosnmp)

Networking Golang Go Snmp Snmpv2 Snmpv3 snmp-agent snmpv2-trap

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buffstreams

A library to simplify writing applications using TCP sockets to stream protobuff messages (by StabbyCutyou)

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gosnmp		buffstreams
	Project
4	Mentions	-
1,067	Stars	254
1.3%	Growth	-
6.3	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Go	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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gosnmp

Posts with mentions or reviews of gosnmp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-30.

Real-Time monitoring and alerting software
4 projects | /r/networking | 30 Sep 2022

As a maintainer of the Prometheus SNMP exporter, and the defacto standard implementation of SNMP in Go, I can tell you exactly how convoluted SNMP is at a protocol and specification level.
Integrating Software Networking products into Monitoring
4 projects | /r/networking | 24 Jul 2022

Source: I help maintain open source SNMP libraries and SNMP pollers.
Agent less Windows server monitoring tools?
4 projects | /r/sysadmin | 8 May 2022

SNMP, while really well implemented and has stood the test of time, blows. I say this as someone with extensive experience with SNMP, including maintaining code libraries and SNMP monitoring tools.
C/C++ Program for UPS SNMP Communication
1 project | /r/sysadmin | 28 Jan 2021

buffstreams

Posts with mentions or reviews of buffstreams. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gosnmp and buffstreams you can also consider the following projects:

linkio - Simulate network link speed

VncProxy - An RFB proxy, written in go that can save and replay FBS files

gopacket - Provides packet processing capabilities for Go

raw - Package raw enables reading and writing data at the device driver level for a network interface. MIT Licensed.

kcp-go - A Crypto-Secure, Production-Grade Reliable-UDP Library for golang with FEC

fullproxy - Proxy toolkit including SOCKS5, HTTP, port forward and reverse base proxying

ethernet - Package ethernet implements marshaling and unmarshaling of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet II frames and IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tags. MIT Licensed.

fortio - Fortio load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server and web UI in go (golang). Allows to specify a set query-per-second load and record latency histograms and other useful stats.

gaio - High performance async-io(proactor) networking for Golang。golangのための高性能非同期io(proactor)ネットワーキング

HTTPLab - The interactive web server

fasthttp - Fast HTTP package for Go. Tuned for high performance. Zero memory allocations in hot paths. Up to 10x faster than net/http

httpstat - It's like curl -v, with colours.