The net-misc category contains various miscellaneous networking tools and utilities.
| adjtimex | display or set the kernel time variables |
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| aget | multithreaded HTTP download accelerator |
| aggregate | Perform two optimisations on a list of prefixes to reduce the length of the list |
| aggregate-flim | aggregate is a tool for aggregating CIDR networks |
| anydesk | Feature rich multi-platform remote desktop application |
| apt-cacher-ng | Yet another caching HTTP proxy for Debian/Ubuntu software packages |
| AQtion | Aquantia AQC multigigabit NIC linux driver (atlantic) - development preview |
| aria2 | A download utility with segmented downloading with BitTorrent support |
| arpd | ARP server claiming all unassigned addresses (for network monitoring/simulation) |
| arpsponge | Sweeps up stray ARP queries from a peering LAN |
| asterisk | Asterisk: A Modular Open Source PBX System |
| asterisk-core-sounds | Core sounds for asterisk |
| asterisk-extra-sounds | Extra sounds for asterisk |
| asterisk-g729 | G.729 codec and supporting files for asterisk |
| asterisk-moh-opsound | asterisk moh music |
| astmanproxy | Proxy for the Asterisk manager interface |
| autossh | Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels |
| autoupnp | Automatic open port forwarder using UPnP |
| axel | Light Unix download accelerator |
| babeld | a loop-free distance-vector routing protocol |
| balance | TCP Load Balancing Port Forwarder |
| batctl | BATMAN advanced control and management tool |
| bfgminer | Modular Bitcoin ASIC/FPGA/GPU/CPU miner in C |
| bgpq3 | Generate access-lists for Cisco/Juniper routers, successor of bgpq |
| bird | A routing daemon implementing OSPF, RIPv2 & BGP for IPv4 & IPv6 |
| blinkperl | blinkperl is a telnet server, which plays BlinkenLight movies |
| bopm | Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor |
| bridge-utils | Tools for configuring the Linux kernel 802.1d Ethernet Bridge |
| bsdwhois | FreeBSD Whois Client |
| buka | Download manga from buka.cn |
| bwwhois | Perl-based whois client designed to work with the new Shared Registration System |
| cadaver | Command-line WebDAV client |
| calico-cni-plugin | Calico Networking for CNI |
| calicoctl | CLI to manage Calico network and security policy |
| capi4hylafax | capi4hylafax adds a faxcapi modem to the hylafax enviroment |
| casync | Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool |
| cbqinit | Sets up class-based queue traffic control (QoS) with iproute2 |
| cbugzilla | CLI and C api to get data from Bugzilla |
| cfengine | An automated suite of programs for configuring and maintaining Unix-like computers |
| cgminer | Bitcoin CPU/GPU/FPGA/ASIC miner in C |
| cgterm | Connect to C64 telnet BBS's with the correct colours and font |
| charm | A text based livejournal client |
| chrome-remote-desktop | access remote computers via Chrome! |
| chrony | NTP client and server programs |
| clockspeed | A simple Network Time Protocol (NTP) client |
| clockspeed-conf | scripts to setup a clockspeed client and/or a taiclockd server |
| clusterssh | Concurrent Multi-Server Terminal Access |
| cmst | Qt GUI for Connman with system tray icon |
| cni-plugins | Standard networking plugins for container networking |
| connect | network connection relaying command (proxy) |
| connman | Provides a daemon for managing internet connections |
| connman-gtk | GTK GUI for Connman |
| connman-json-client | An ncurses UI for connman |
| connman-notify | Desktop notification integration for connman |
| connman-ui | A full-featured GTK based trayicon UI for ConnMan |
| crossbar | Crossbar.io - The Unified Application Router for the twisted framework |
| csync | lightweight file synchronizer utility |
| curl | A Client that groks URLs |
| dahdi | Kernel modules for Digium compatible hardware (formerly known as Zaptel) |
| dahdi-tools | Userspace tools to configure the kernel modules from net-misc/dahdi |
| datapipe | bind a local port and connect it to a remote socket |
| dcetest | dcetest is a clone of the Windows rpcinfo |
| dhcdrop | Effectively suppresses illegal DHCP servers on the LAN |
| dhcp | ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client/server |
| dhcpcd | A fully featured, yet light weight RFC2131 compliant DHCP client |
| dhcpcd-ui | Desktop notification and configuration for dhcpcd |
| dhcpd-pools | ISC dhcpd lease analysis and reporting |
| dhcping | Utility for sending a dhcp request to a dhcp server to see if it is responding |
| dibbler | Portable DHCPv6 implementation (server, client and relay) |
| dleyna-server | library for implementing services that allow clients to discover, browse and manipulate DLNA Servers |
| dmr_utils | Python utilities for working with DMR |
| drive | Google Drive client for the commandline |
| dropbear | small SSH 2 client/server designed for small memory environments |
| dropbox | Dropbox daemon (pretends to be GUI-less) |
| dropbox-cli | Cli interface for dropbox (python), part of nautilus-dropbox |
| econnman | ConnMan User Interface written with EFL & python |
| efax | A simple fax program for single-user systems |
| electron-cash | Lightweight Bitcoin Cash client (BCH fork of Electrum) |
| electrum | User friendly Bitcoin client |
| electrum-ltc | Litecoin thin client |
| ena-driver | Amazon EC2 Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) kernel driver |
| endlessh | SSH tarpit that slowly sends and endless banner |
| ethercard-diag | low level mii diagnostic tools including mii-diag and etherwake (merge of netdiag/isa-diag) |
| ethertypes | Maps ethernet frame ids to symbolic names |
| eventd | A small daemon to act on remote or local events |
| exabgp | The BGP swiss army knife of networking |
| fakeidentd | A static, secure identd. One source file only! |
| fatrat | Qt5-based download/upload manager |
| felix | Calico's per-host agent, responsible for programming routes and security policy |
| fmirror | FTP mirror utility |
| freerdp | Free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol |
| gcap | Command line tool for downloading Youtube closed captions |
| geoipupdate | performs automatic updates of GeoIP2 and GeoIP Legacy binary databases |
| geomyidae | A daemon to serve the gopher protocol |
| gerbera | UPnP Media Server (Based on MediaTomb) |
| getdate | Network Date/Time Query and Set Local Date/Time Utility |
| gnome-online-miners | Crawls through your online content |
| gnome-remote-desktop | Remote desktop daemon for GNOME using pipewire |
| gns3-converter | Designed to convert old ini-style GNS3 topologies |
| gns3-gui | Graphical Network Simulator |
| gns3-server | GNS3 server to asynchronously manage emulators |
| gofish | Gofish gopher server |
| grdesktop | Gtk2 frontend for rdesktop |
| grive | An open source Linux client for Google Drive |
| gsasl | The GNU SASL client, server, and library |
| gsutil | command line tool for interacting with cloud storage services |
| gupnp-tools | Free replacements of Intel UPnP tools that use GUPnP |
| gvrpcd | A program for announcing VLANs using GVRP |
| gwget | GTK2 WGet Frontend |
| gwhois | Generic whois |
| haeredes | Confirm delegation of NS and MX records |
| hashcash | Utility to generate hashcash tokens |
| hath | Hath manipulates network blocks in CIDR notation |
| hlfl | High Level Firewall Language |
| hsc | An HTML preprocessor using ML syntax |
| htbinit | Sets up Hierachical Token Bucket based traffic control (QoS) with iproute2 |
| htpdate | Synchronize local workstation with time offered by remote webservers |
| httpie | Modern command line HTTP client |
| httptype | Returns the http host software of a website |
| hylafaxplus | Enterprise client-server fax package for class 1 and 2 fax modems |
| iaxmodem | Software modem that uses an IAX channel instead of a traditional phone line |
| icaclient | ICA Client for Citrix Presentation servers |
| icecast | Opensource alternative to shoutcast that supports mp3, ogg and aac streaming |
| ices | Icecast OGG streaming client, supports on the fly re-encoding |
| ifenslave | Attach and detach slave interfaces to a bonding device |
| igmpproxy | A multicast routing daemon which uses IGMP forwarding |
| ip-sentinel | Prevent unauthorized usage of IPs in the local ethernet broadcastdomain by answering ARP-requests |
| ipcalc | IP Calculator prints broadcast/network/etc for an IP address and netmask |
| iperf | A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool |
| ipmiview | A GUI application that allows to manage multiple target systems through BMC |
| iprange | iprange utility |
| ipsc | IP Subnet Calculator |
| ipsorcery | Ipsorcery allows you to generate IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and IGMP packets |
| ipsvd | ipsvd is a set of internet protocol service daemons for Unix |
| iputils | Network monitoring tools including ping and ping6 |
| ipv6calc | IPv6 address calculator |
| ipx-utils | The IPX Utilities |
| irrtree | The BGP swiss army knife of networking |
| istioctl | Istio configuration command line utility |
| jlj | Simple console LiveJournal entry system |
| jrdesktop | Java Remote Desktop (jrdesktop) software for viewing and/or controlling a distance PC |
| jwhois | Advanced Internet Whois client capable of recursive queries |
| kafka-bin | A high-throughput distributed messaging system |
| kafkacat | Generic command line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer |
| kea | High-performance production grade DHCPv4 & DHCPv6 server |
| keychain | Agent manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH, and GnuPG |
| knemo | Plasma Network Monitor |
| knock | A simple port-knocking daemon |
| l7-filter-userspace | Userspace utilities for layer 7 iptables QoS |
| l7-protocols | Protocol definitions of l7-filter kernel modules |
| lambdamoo | networked mud that can be used for different types of collaborative software |
| lanmap | lanmap sits quietly on a network and builds a picture of what it sees |
| lcr | Linux Call Router |
| libss7 | Signalling System 7 (SS7) protocol library |
| libteam | Library and tools set for controlling team network device |
| linux-eoip | Linux support for proprietary MIkrotik EoIP protocol |
| linuxptp | The Linux Precision Time Protocol (PTP) implementation |
| liveice | Live Source Client For IceCast |
| lksctp-tools | Tools for Linux Kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol implementation |
| lldpd | Implementation of IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP) |
| mcproxy | A multicast proxy for IGMP/MLD |
| megatools | Command line tools and C library for accessing Mega cloud storage |
| memcached | High-performance, distributed memory object caching system |
| mico | A freely available and fully compliant implementation of the CORBA standard |
| midentd | ident daemon with masquerading and fake replies support |
| mikutter | Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client |
| minidlna | DLNA/UPnP-AV compliant media server |
| minissdpd | MiniSSDP Daemon |
| miniupnpd | MiniUPnP IGD Daemon |
| mobile-broadband-provider-info | Database of mobile broadband service providers |
| modemmanager | Modem and mobile broadband management libraries |
| monmotha | MonMotha IPTables-based firewall script |
| mosh | Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo |
| mrouted | IP multicast routing daemon |
| mulk | Download agent similar to wget/curl |
| nat-traverse | Traverse NAT gateways with the Use of UDP |
| ncman | An ncurses UI for connman, forked from connman-json-client |
| ncp | Utility for copying files in a LAN (npoll, npush) |
| ndisc6 | Recursive DNS Servers discovery Daemon (rdnssd) for IPv6 |
| ndppd | Proxies NDP messages between interfaces |
| nemesis | A commandline-based, portable human IP stack for UNIX/Linux |
| netdate | utility to synchronize the time with ntp-servers |
| netifrc | Gentoo Network Interface Management Scripts |
| netkit-bootparamd | Netkit - bootparamd |
| netkit-bootpd | Netkit - bootp |
| netkit-fingerd | Netkit - fingerd and finger client |
| netkit-routed | Netkit - routed |
| netkit-rsh | Netkit's Remote Shell Suite: rexec{,d} rlogin{,d} rsh{,d} |
| netkit-talk | Netkit - talkd |
| netkit-telnetd | Standard Linux telnet client and server |
| netkit-timed | Netkit - timed |
| netpipe | tool to reliably distribute binary data using UDP broadcasting techniques |
| netpipes | a package to manipulate BSD TCP/IP stream sockets |
| netprofiles-ims | Netprofiles Interface Management System manages network configurations |
| netsed | Small tool for altering forwarded network data in real time |
| netstat-nat | Display NAT connections |
| networkmanager | A set of co-operative tools that make networking simple and straightforward |
| nextcloud-client | Desktop Syncing Client for Nextcloud |
| ng-utils | A collection of small tools for accessing netgroup contents |
| nicstat | Network traffic statics utility for Solaris and Linux |
| npapi-sdk | NPAPI headers bundle |
| ntp | Network Time Protocol suite/programs |
| ntpclient | A NTP (RFC-1305 and RFC-4330) client for unix-alike systems |
| ntpsec | The NTP reference implementation, refactored |
| nx | NX compression technology core libraries |
| nxplayer | Client for NoMachine remote servers |
| nyx | Utility to monitor real time Tor status information |
| ofono | Open Source mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) daemon |
| oidentd | Another (RFC1413 compliant) ident daemon |
| olsrd | An implementation of the Optimized Link State Routing protocol |
| omniORB | A robust, high-performance CORBA 2 ORB |
| omnisync | A driver for NTPd for people who are firewall-challenged |
| openntpd | Lightweight NTP server ported from OpenBSD |
| openr2 | An open implementation of the MFC/R2 telephony signaling protocol |
| openssh | Port of OpenBSD's free SSH release |
| openssh-blacklist | Source files of vuln Debian keys |
| openvswitch | Production quality, multilayer virtual switch |
| owncloud-client | Synchronize files from ownCloud Server with your computer |
| packETH | Packet generator tool for ethernet |
| pcapfix | Repair and fix broken pcap files |
| pedro | Pedro is a subscription/notification communications system |
| pen | TCP Load Balancing Port Forwarder |
| pimpd | RFC1413-compliant identd server supporting masqueraded connections |
| pingu | Policy routing daemon with failover and load-balancing |
| pipes | Very versatile TCP pipes |
| plowshare | Command-line downloader and uploader for file-sharing websites |
| pmsvn | Server's configuration management and monitoring tool |
| portfwd | Port Forwarding Daemon |
| portspoof | return SYN+ACK for every port connection attempt |
| pps-tools | User-space tools for LinuxPPS |
| proxychains | force any tcp connections to flow through a proxy (or proxy chain) |
| proxytunnel | Connect stdin and stdout to a server via an HTTPS proxy |
| ps3mediaserver | DLNA compliant UPNP server for streaming media to Playstation 3 |
| pssh | PSSH provides parallel versions of OpenSSH and related tools |
| ptpd | Precision Time Protocol daemon |
| puf | A download tool for UNIX-like systems |
| pulseaudio-dlna | A lightweight DLNA/UPNP/Chromecast streaming server for PulseAudio |
| pump | This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat |
| putty | A Free Telnet/SSH Client |
| pycnb | Access cnb.cz daily rates with the comfort of your command line |
| pyhoca-cli | X2Go command line client |
| pyhoca-gui | X2Go graphical client applet |
| python-x2go | X2Go client-side Python API |
| pytvshows | downloads torrents for TV shows from RSS feeds provided by ezrss.it |
| qtm | Qt blogging client |
| quagga | A free routing daemon replacing Zebra supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP |
| r8168 | r8168 driver for Realtek 8111/8168 PCI-E NICs |
| rabbitmq-server | RabbitMQ is a high-performance AMQP-compliant message broker written in Erlang |
| radvd | Linux IPv6 Router Advertisement Daemon |
| rclone | A program to sync files to and from various cloud storage providers |
| rdate | use TCP or UDP to retrieve the current time of another machine |
| rdesktop | A Remote Desktop Protocol Client |
| redir | Redir is a port redirector |
| remmina | A GTK+ RDP, SPICE, VNC, XDMCP and SSH client |
| rinetd | redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another |
| ris-linux | BINL server to doing Windows(r) RIS |
| rsync | File transfer program to keep remote files into sync |
| rwbs | Roger Wilco base station |
| rwhoisd | ARIN rwhois daemon |
| rygel | Rygel is an open source UPnP/DLNA MediaServer |
| s3cmd | Command line client for Amazon S3 |
| s6-networking | Suite of small networking utilities for Unix systems |
| samplicator | UDP packets forwarder and duplicator |
| scponly | A tiny pseudoshell which only permits scp and sftp |
| seafile | File syncing and sharing software with file encryption and group sharing |
| seafile-client | Seafile desktop client |
| secpanel | Graphical frontend for managing and running SSH and SCP connections |
| selfdhcp | a small stealth network autoconfigure software |
| sendfile | SAFT implementation for asynchronous sending of files in the Internet |
| ser2net | Serial To Network Proxy |
| sgopherd | Small Gopher Server written in GNU Bash |
| shigofumi | Command line client for ISDS |
| shmux | run the same command across many hosts in parallel |
| shout | Shout is a program for creating mp3 stream for use with icecast or shoutcast |
| sipcalc | Sipcalc is an advanced console-based IP subnet calculator |
| sipsak | small command line tool for testing SIP applications and devices |
| sitecopy | Maintain remote web sites with ease |
| sks | An OpenPGP keyserver which is decentralized with highly reliable synchronization |
| smb4k | Advanced network neighborhood browser |
| smbc | Text mode (ncurses) SMB network commander. Features: resume and UTF-8 |
| snarf | Small and fast CLI resource grabber for http, gopher, finger, ftp |
| sobby | Standalone Obby server |
| socat | Multipurpose relay (SOcket CAT) |
| sock | A shell interface to network sockets |
| socket | A shell-level interface to TCP sockets |
| socket-burst-dampener | A daemon that spawns one command per connection, and dampens connection bursts |
| spice-gtk | Set of GObject and Gtk objects for connecting to Spice servers and a client GUI |
| spiped | secure pipe daemon |
| spread | Distributed network messaging system |
| srf-ip-conn-srv | SharkRF IP Connector Protocol server |
| ssh-askpass-fullscreen | A small SSH Askpass replacement written with GTK2 |
| ssh-chain | ssh via a chain of intermediary hosts |
| sshpass | Tool for noninteractively performing password authentication with ssh |
| sshrc | Bring your .bashrc, .vimrc, etc. from your local machine when you ssh |
| sslh | Port multiplexer - accept both HTTPS and SSH connections on the same port |
| sstp-client | A client implementation of Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) |
| ssvnc | VNC viewer that adds encryption security to VNC connections |
| stargazer | Billing system for small home and office networks |
| streamlink | CLI for extracting streams from websites to a video player of your choice |
| streamtuner | Stream directory browser for browsing internet radio streams |
| stunnel | TLS/SSL - Port Wrapper |
| stuntman | Open source implementation of the STUN protocol |
| suite3270 | Complete 3270 access package |
| switzerland | Network Testing Tool |
| taptap | A program to link two /dev/net/tun to form virtual ethernet |
| taylor-uucp | Taylor UUCP |
| tcpsound | Play sounds in response to network traffic |
| teamviewer | All-In-One Solution for Remote Access and Support over the Internet |
| telnet-bsd | Telnet and telnetd ported from OpenBSD with IPv6 support |
| termpkg | Termpkg, the Poor Man's Terminal Server |
| throttle | Bandwidth limiting pipe |
| tiers | Random network topography generator |
| tigervnc | Remote desktop viewer display system |
| tipcutils | Utilities for TIPC (Transparent Inter-Process Communication) |
| tokyotyrant | A network interface to Tokyo Cabinet |
| trackma | Open multi-site list manager for media tracking sites |
| ttytter | A multi-functional, console-based Twitter client |
| ubridge | Bridge for UDP tunnels, Ethernet, TAP and VMnet interfaces |
| ucarp | Portable userland implementation of Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP) |
| udpcast | Multicast file transfer tool |
| udpxy | Small daemon to relay multicast UDP traffic to client's TCP (HTTP) connection |
| uftp | Encrypted UDP based FTP with multicast |
| unison | Two-way cross-platform file synchronizer |
| unix2tcp | a connection forwarder that converts Unix sockets into TCP sockets |
| usbip | Userspace utilities for a general USB device sharing system over IP networks |
| utelnetd | A small Telnet daemon, derived from the Axis tools |
| valve | Copy data while enforcing a specified maximum transfer rate |
| vconfig | 802.1Q vlan control utility |
| vde | Virtual distributed ethernet emulator for emulators like qemu, bochs, and uml |
| vinagre | VNC client for the GNOME desktop |
| vino | An integrated VNC server for GNOME |
| vmnet | A simple virtual networking program - SLIP over stdin/out |
| vmpsd | An open-source VLAN management system |
| vncrec | VNC session recorder and player |
| vncsnapshot | A command-line tool for taking JPEG snapshots of VNC servers |
| vrrpd | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol Daemon |
| wakeonlan | Client for Wake-On-LAN |
| wget | Network utility to retrieve files from the WWW |
| whatmask | little C program to compute different subnet mask notations |
| whois | improved Whois Client |
| wicd | A lightweight wired and wireless network manager for Linux |
| wol | Implements Wake On LAN (Magic Paket) functionality in a small program |
| wput | Tiny program like wget, to upload files/whole directories via FTP |
| x11-ssh-askpass | X11-based passphrase dialog for use with OpenSSH |
| x2goclient | The X2Go Qt client |
| x2goserver | The X2Go server |
| yandex-disk | CLI to access Yandex Disk file storage service |
| you-get | utility to download media contents from the web |
| youtube-dl | Download videos from YouTube.com (and more sites...) |
| youtube-viewer | A command line utility for viewing youtube-videos in Mplayer |
| zerotier | A software-based managed Ethernet switch for planet Earth |
| zssh | An ssh wrapper enabling zmodem up/download in ssh |
| zsync | Partial/differential file download client over HTTP which uses the rsync algorithm |