netsniff-ng

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Project Summary

netsniff-ng is is a free, performant Linux network analyzer and networking toolkit.

The gain of performance is reached by zero-copy mechanisms, so that the kernel does not need to copy packets from kernelspace to userspace and vice versa.

netsniff-ng consists of much more than only a network analyzer. Next to the zero-copy sniffer itself, further tools like trafgen, a powerful zero-copy network packet generator, or ifpps, a tool that provides top-like kernel networking statistics, and curvetun, a lightweight curve25519-based multiuser IP tunnel, are being shipped.

In a Nutshell, netsniff-ng...

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has had 4,233 commits made by 65 contributors
representing 70,153 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a low number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 18 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 5 months ago

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