Best Open Source Networking Tools

Open source networking tools, ranked by score and analyzed honestly. Part of our Infrastructure & DevOps coverage.

Ranked by score. Updated weekly.

1

frp

86

107,476Gopermissive
2

Traefik

86

Cloud-native application proxy

63,693Gopermissive
3

Headscale

83

Self-hosted Tailscale control server

40,292Gopermissive
4

Tailscale

83

Easiest way to use WireGuard

32,718Gopermissive
5

Envoy

83

Cloud-native high-performance proxy

28,452C++permissive
6

Nebula

83

Scalable overlay networking

17,422Gopermissive
7

rathole

81

13,794Rustpermissive
8

AdGuard Home

76

Network-wide ad/tracker blocking DNS

35,025Gocopyleft
9

clash-nyanpasu

76

Clash Nyanpasu~(∠・ω< )⌒☆​

13,039Rustcopyleft
10

firezone

75

Enterprise-ready zero-trust access platform built on WireGuard®.

8,703Elixirpermissive
11

blocky

75

6,715Gopermissive
12

ZeroTier

71

Peer-to-peer virtual networking

16,858C++source-available
13

gobgp

71

BGP implemented in the Go Programming Language

4,077Gopermissive
14

mullvadvpn-app

68

The Mullvad VPN client app for desktop and mobile

7,193Rustcopyleft
15

easylist

68

EasyList filter subscription (EasyList, EasyPrivacy, EasyList Cookie, Fanboy's Social/Annoyances/Notifications Blocking List)

3,026Adblock Filter Listcopyleft
16

vpp

67

Mirror of VPP code base hosted at git.fd.io

1,544Cpermissive
17

octelium

63

A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.

3,896Gostrong-copyleft
18

sozu

61

3,686Ruststrong-copyleft
19

samba

60

https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub)

1,103Ccopyleft
20

docktail

52

Expose Docker containers as Tailscale Services using label-based configuration.

767Gostrong-copyleft

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