Top 5 packet-generator Open-Source Projects

netsniff-ng

2 1,177 0.0 C

A Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing.
tcpreplay

1 1,116 4.2 C

Pcap editing and replay tools for *NIX and Windows - Users please download source from
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.
MoonGen

2 1,020 0.0 Lua

MoonGen is a fully scriptable high-speed packet generator built on DPDK and LuaJIT. It can saturate a 10 Gbit/s connection with 64 byte packets on a single CPU core while executing user-provided Lua scripts for each packet. Multi-core support allows for even higher rates. It also features precise and accurate timestamping and rate control.
nemesis

1 479 2.4 C

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

1 114 0.0 C++

Hyenae NG is an advanced cross-platform network packet generator and the successor of Hyenae. It features full network layer spoofing, pattern based address randomization and flood detection breaking mechanisms.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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).