Unicornscan: Low-Level Network Scanner for When You Need to See It All Most scanners try to be smart — interpret results, summarize things, smooth over the raw data. Unicornscan doesn’t do that. It’s more like: here’s what the network gave you back, figure it out. That might sound like a drawback, but for some, it’s exactly the point.

It was built to be fast, quiet, and detailed. Not beautiful. Not “user-friendly.” Just efficient, and honest about what’s happening on the wire. People still reac

EtherApe: Real-Time Network Mapping You Can Actually See Sometimes the best way to understand a network isn’t through logs or terminal output — it’s by watching the traffic happen. EtherApe gives that to you. It’s a graphical network monitor that visualizes real-time packet activity, showing who’s talking to whom and how much.

No need to dig through captures or scroll through flows — one glance, and patterns start to emerge. It’s not a fancy dashboard system. It’s not a SIEM. But it gives netwo

NetXMS: Monitoring That Doesn’t Blink, Even When the Network Does If you’ve got more than a handful of devices and you want proper visibility — not just a few pings and CPU graphs — NetXMS is the kind of tool that shows up and sticks around. It’s full-stack infrastructure monitoring, built to handle everything from SNMP routers to Windows servers and virtual machines. And it does so without a bloated UI or vendor lock-in. It’s open-source, fast, and surprisingly robust once you plug it into your

mitmproxy: The Moment You Realize Wireshark Isn’t Enough There’s a point in every engineer’s life when packet capture just isn’t cutting it. You’ve got an app making API calls in the background, or a client that misbehaves only when it thinks no one’s watching. That’s where mitmproxy comes in — and honestly, once you’ve used it, it’s hard to go back. It’s not just a proxy. It’s a window into real-time HTTP and HTTPS traffic, with tools to pause, modify, replay, and break things — intentionally.