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Top 23 Rust Networking Projects
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Project mention: Announcing Sniffnet v1.4: introduced PCAP files import — it’s 2X faster than Wireshark! | dev.to | 2025-06-28
For those of you that still don't know it, Sniffnet is an open-source, cross-platform, Rust-based application enabling you to comfortably monitor Internet traffic (official website | GitHub repository).
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tokio
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
That's it. Everything else — async/await, actors, work-stealing executors, lock-free data structures — lives in the ecosystem (tokio, rayon, crossbeam, actix, etc.).
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Project mention: Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-24
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Bore is a fast, minimal tunneling solution designed for ease of use and self-hosting.
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> If you ever see packet loss in a trace at one step but the steps after it aren't showing it, you can ignore that packet loss, it's likely a CPU limitation on a busy router.
Trippy now includes [0] forward loss (Floss) and backward loss (Bloss) _heuristics_ to help surface such behaviour.
The idea was inspired by our previous discussion [1] on the topic on HN some time ago!
These columns are experimental and so not shown by default but can be enabled [2].
[0] https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy/blob/master/RELEASES....
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591827
[2] https://trippy.rs/reference/column
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Project mention: One Rust Core, Two App Shells: Tauri + React Native in SwarmNote | dev.to | 2026-05-15
libp2p
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zenoh
zenoh unifies data in motion, data in-use, data at rest and computations. It carefully blends traditional pub/sub with geo-distributed storages, queries and computations, while retaining a level of time and space efficiency that is well beyond any of the mainstream stacks.
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In practice, this machinery is already available in the ntex-service crate. Its ServiceChain acts as a typed builder for pipelines, deferring composition until the chain is finalized. The resulting Pipeline is a distinct type because it encodes an additional constraint over the entire service graph: readiness.
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Project mention: FerrumC – Reimplementation of the Minecraft server in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-27
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shadow
Shadow is a discrete-event network simulator that directly executes real application code, enabling you to simulate distributed systems with thousands of network-connected processes in realistic and scalable private network experiments using your laptop, desktop, or server running Linux. (by shadow)
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ttl
Fast, modern traceroute with real-time TUI, per-hop stats, ASN/geo lookup, ECMP detection, and MPLS label parsing. A better mtr.
Project mention: Ttl: Traceroute with MTU discovery, NAT/IX detection, route flap alerts, more | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-18 -
Project mention: One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-31
Congratulations terts and team. In November’25 we had pleasure to interview you about roto and Nlnetlabs [1]. Happy how far it has come already. Before the summer ends We’ll implement support for it in rama [2] to support scripted services and anything else you might want! Looking forward to that day. Until then, keep it up!
[1]: https://netstack.fm/#episode-14
[2]: https://github.com/plabayo/rama
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nanocl
Work in progress distributed system that simplifies the orchestration of containers and virtual machines.
Nanocl is a container orchestration platform that allows you to manage and deploy containerized applications easily. It provides a simple and efficient way to run containers on your infrastructure, making it easier to manage and scale your applications.
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ggrs
GGRS is a reimagination of GGPO, enabling P2P rollback networking in Rust. Rollback to the future!
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distant
🚧 (Alpha stage software) Library and tooling that supports remote filesystem and process operations. 🚧
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
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Service pipeline
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Networking projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sniffnet | 39,022 |
| 2 | tokio | 32,208 |
| 3 | RustScan | 19,886 |
| 4 | Bandwhich | 11,779 |
| 5 | bore | 11,206 |
| 6 | Pumpkin | 7,763 |
| 7 | MIO | 7,008 |
| 8 | trippy | 6,907 |
| 9 | rust-libp2p | 5,532 |
| 10 | smol | 4,956 |
| 11 | zenoh | 2,835 |
| 12 | libpnet | 2,569 |
| 13 | ntex | 2,513 |
| 14 | ferrumc | 2,267 |
| 15 | shadow | 1,704 |
| 16 | TQUIC | 1,419 |
| 17 | ttl | 1,040 |
| 18 | rama | 1,032 |
| 19 | nanocl | 983 |
| 20 | laminar | 869 |
| 21 | actix-net | 771 |
| 22 | ggrs | 651 |
| 23 | distant | 635 |
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