aim vs pwnat

aim

🎯 A command line download/upload tool with resume. (by mihaigalos)

The only tool/technique to punch holes through firewalls/NATs where multiple clients & server can be behind separate NATs without any 3rd party involvement. Pwnat is a newly developed technique, exploiting a property of NAT translation tables, with no 3rd party, port forwarding, DMZ, DNS, router admin requirements, STUN/TURN/UPnP/ICE, or spoofing. (by samyk)

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aim		pwnat
	Project
2	Mentions	15
90	Stars	3,088
-	Growth	-
9.1	Activity	5.8
7 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Rust	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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aim

Posts with mentions or reviews of aim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.

How to copy a file between devices?
32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024

If you're fine with plain http on your local network, you can use https://github.com/mihaigalos/aim
Spoiler: I wrote it.
What's everyone working on this week (36/2022)?
6 projects | /r/rust | 4 Sep 2022

Further features and stabilization of aim: a command line download/upload tool with resume.

pwnat

Posts with mentions or reviews of pwnat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-14.

How to copy a file between devices?
32 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
How does Linux NAT a ping?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2023
pwnat: Nat to NAT client-server communication
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023
Working as intended?
1 project | /r/openwrt | 15 Jun 2023
Don't bother upgrading to the 'Priority' plan to get the static IP address.
1 project | /r/Starlink | 4 May 2023

you are correct it has been a while since my starlink was active but check this out it sounds like a possible solution although a small vps with a tunnel would also work but this seems to be serverless http://samy.pl/pwnat/
[Network-Programming] I created some tools to bypass port-forwarding requirements for P2P online multiplayer. Might also need a slight sanity check - advice appreciated!
2 projects | /r/gamedev | 9 Feb 2023

Here is another method to study https://github.com/samyk/pwnat
Are there any services that relay ssh connection?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 2 Feb 2023

You can try this... https://samy.pl/pwnat/ not sure if it handles double nat, which is common these days, but might be worth trying.
Q: how to serve http(s) out of a home network without public IP?
1 project | /r/HomeNetworking | 21 Dec 2022

maybe check out http://samy.pl/pwnat/
Using UDP in multiplayer...
1 project | /r/gamedev | 26 Oct 2022
LAPSUS$ ringleader suspected to be 16-year-old British teen
1 project | /r/programming | 24 Mar 2022

I remember when I was a kid using Moxie Marlinspike's SSLStrip to mitm some friends, not to mention setting up pwnat so I could connect back to my home computer from a linux computer at school. https://samy.pl/pwnat/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aim and pwnat you can also consider the following projects:

cargo-changelog - Changelog management tool for the CLI

coturn - coturn TURN server project

chips

masscan - TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.

cyberdrop-dl - 📦🌏 Cyberdrop.me album downloader

mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

donut.live - Tribute to parrot.live, with donuts.

bettercap - The Swiss Army knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 networks reconnaissance and MITM attacks.

CuTE - HTTP client/libcurl TUI front end in Rust, with request + key storage

scapy - Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library. Supports Python 2 & Python 3.

serde_ub_json - UBJSON serialization for Rust using Serde

Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby