Top 6 packet-crafting Open-Source Projects

scapy

26 10,028 9.3 Python

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

Project mention: Seven Python Projects to Elevate Your Coding Skills | dev.to | 2024-02-15

Example Network Scanner Scapy

PcapPlusPlus

32 2,574 9.1 C++

PcapPlusPlus is a multiplatform C++ library for capturing, parsing and crafting of network packets. It is designed to be efficient, powerful and easy to use. It provides C++ wrappers for the most popular packet processing engines such as libpcap, Npcap, WinPcap, DPDK, AF_XDP and PF_RING.

Project mention: PcapPlusPlus v23.09 is out! - C++ library for capturing and analyzing network packets | /r/cpp | 2023-10-01

It's been a while since our last release (about 10 months) so quite a lot has changed. I'll try to summarize the most important things. You can see the full list of changes in the release notes: https://github.com/seladb/PcapPlusPlus/releases/tag/v23.09

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
nemesis

1 479 2.4 C

A command-line network packet crafting and injection utility (by libnet)
pig

1 459 1.8 C

A Linux packet crafting tool. (by rafael-santiago)
gosynflood

4 101 1.8 Go

Demonstrates a synflood DDOS attack with raw sockets (for Ubuntu and Debian-like distros)
macgonuts

3 11 7.6 C

:computer: :electric_plug: :satellite: :hammer: :wrench: :mag_right: :bomb: :spades: :space_invader: :trollface: :godmode: An ARP/NDP swiss army knife to make MAC going nuts on networks around!

Project mention: An ARP/NDP swiss army knife to make MAC going nuts | /r/2600 | 2023-10-02

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).