Network Traffic Generator Monitor

VPNmonitor is a free (GNU GPL) Java tool to observe network traffic. Network administrators can use it to monitor VPN (PPTP and IPSec) and SSL (HTTPS) connectivity of wireline/wireless networks. The graphical representation makes it easy to visualize messages being sent between computer nodes....

Nsasoft Network Traffic Emulator generates IP/ICMP/TCP/UDP traffic from clients to server to stress test servers, routers and firewalls under heavy network load. It is a very simple and fast program which can simulate client activity. The tool is designed with a user-friendly interface and is...

TraffAcct is a platform for gathering network traffic data for use in link volume calculations or billing. TraffAcct can be used to monitor the traffic usage of many network interfaces include Ethernet, serial, ATM, and Frame Relay. It can also be used to account for traffic on virtual...


Platforms: *nix

HTTP traffic generator allows to generate a good amount of http traffic for testing web applications, web servers, intrusion detection system and their resistance to HTTP attacks. You can specify the requests count and interval between two requests. The generated requests are sent to the...


Platforms: Windows

NetShareWatcher is network security improvement software. It allows network administrators to monitor network shares and identify shares which are violating the data access policy of their organization. NetShareWatcher is very handy. Once you configure it a first time, you can forget about...


Platforms: Windows

The SFSU Penaltybox is a solution for high network traffic in residence halls. It implements a bandwidth quota, penalizing the users who cause most of the network congestion. When users go over their bandwidth quota in a time period their traffic is limited using a Packeteer PacketShaper for a...


Platforms: *nix

tcpreplay is a suite of tools to edit and replay captured network traffic.


Platforms: *nix

vnstat PHP frontend project is a PHP fronted end to vnStat, a network traffic logger. Since vnStat is console mode only I created this script to make a nice report of the data collected by vnStat. This script requires a working PHP setup with GD image libraries. Also vnStat must be properly...


Platforms: *nix

Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic. In an experimental enhancement, driftnet now picks out MPEG audio streams from network traffic and tries to play them. (Obviously,...


Platforms: *nix

Softflowd project is flow-based network traffic analyser capable of Cisco NetFlow data export. Softflowd semi-statefully tracks traffic flows recorded by listening on a network interface or by reading a packet capture file. These flows may be reported via NetFlow™ to a collecting host or...


Platforms: *nix

post is a highly configurable Web traffic generator and Web server benchmarking tool. It has lots of features, and a command line interface. This program sends requests to a web server. It is made for benchmarking a web server or web application. To specify a URL to request, use any of these...


Platforms: *nix

Streamsniff is a command line tool that sniffs network traffic for stream urls. I built it because I got tired chasing stream urls hidden behind loads of html and javascript. Run it as root, fire up your browser and start the stream you want to "expose". Streamsniff detects the initiation of...


Platforms: *nix

Netcount is a package for logging and displaying PPP network traffic on Linux machines. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. The display...


Platforms: *nix

RenaissanceCore project is a sophisticated analyzer of network traffic that detects intrusion attempts and also reduces false positives. The RenaissanceCore IDS consists of four components: a stateful IDS sensor, a graphical user interface, a database backend, and a two-way interface between...


Platforms: *nix

TNV stands for The Network Visualizer or Time-based Network Visualizer and depicts network traffic by visualizing packets and links between local and remote hosts. TNV is intended for network traffic analysis to facilitate learning what constitutes normal activity on a network, investigating...


Platforms: *nix

ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. The project is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well. ntop users can use a a web browser...


Platforms: *nix

MasterShaper is an network traffic shaper which provides an Web Interface for Quality of Servcie (QoS) functions of newer Linux 2.4- & 2.6-Kernel-Seriesexternal link. It targets to let users learn and use traffic shaping mechanism. This should be possible for everyone who has no deeper...


Platforms: *nix

Seagull project is a multi-protocol traffic generator test tool. Primary aimed at IMS protocols (and thus being the perfect complement to SIPp for IMS testing), Seagull is a powerful traffic generator for functional, load, endurance, stress and performance tests for almost any kind of protocol....


Platforms: *nix

nfcount is tool for count network traffic by using rules. Rule can be defined by source or destenation IP address, timeranges. Accounting result may be simple counter or hystogram..


Platforms: *nix

JAgents project is a Game theoretic Evolutionary Network Traffic Simulator. JAgents (A Game theoretic Evolutionary Network Traffic Simulator) is a tool for simulating dynamics of selfish users in traffic networks like the Internet. Classical Game Theory has been extensively used to analyze...


Platforms: *nix