Networking Tools

Tools for experimenting with network communications written primarily for Windows in .NET.

Download

See releases section of this GitHub project. For older builds, head to https://dl.bintray.com/tewarid/net-tools/.

Build from source

To build all the tools, clone this repository, and initialize submodules

git clone https://github.com/tewarid/net-tools.git
cd net-tools
git submodule update --init --recursive

Then, open the solution file NeTools.sln using Visual Studio 2017 and build.

To build from the command line, open Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017, change to the net-tools directory, and run

nuget restore NetTools.sln
msbuild NeTools.sln

You may have to download nuget from nuget.org.

Mono

A solution file is available for building some of the tools for Linux or macOS using Mono.

Use the msbuild version supplied by Mono to build

msbuild NetTools.Mono.sln

.NET Core

A solution file is available to build some of the tools for Windows using .NET Core

dotnet build NetTools.NetCore.sln

You can also use Visual Studio 2019 Preview to build.

AMQP 1.0 Client Tool

A minimal interactive AMQP 1.0 client based on the AMQPNetLite library.

Bluetooth Serial Client Tool

Interactive client that may be used to open a Bluetooth serial socket, send, and receive data. It is built with 32feet.NET, a .NET library layered over Windows Bluetooth socket API.

Bluetooth Serial Server Tool

Simulate a Bluetooth serial listener/server on Windows. It is built with 32feet.NET, a .NET library layered over Windows Bluetooth socket API.

Encoding Tool

Convert data or text to or from various formats such as Base64, and encoded HTML, XML, or URL.

Firewall Tool

Add exceptions to Windows Firewall using native COM library NetFwTypeLib. With contributions from Bruno Silveira.

Git Tool

A wrapper around command line Git, that allows running multiple commands on several cloned repos at once. A command can reference all or part of the output of the previous command with {{OUT:start,length}} where start is zero-indexed. Several repos can be cloned from GitHub or GitLab at once. A customizable cheatsheet is available in cheatsheet.md. Any line starting with $ git is assumed to be a git command and displayed in the tool.

HTTP Request Tool

Interactive HTTP(S) client built using System.Net.HttpWebRequest.

HTTP Listener Tool

HTTP(S) server built using System.Net.HttpListener.

ICMP Tool

Interactive client that uses raw sockets to send/receive ICMP messages. Requires administrative privilege.

Kafka Client Tool

An interactive Kafka client based on the Confluent.Kafka library. The tool has been tested with cloudkarafka and Docker.

MQTT Client Tool

Interactive MQTT client based on the MQTTnet library.

Route Tool

Interactive client to add, view, and delete IP v4 routes on Windows. Requires PowerShell, which is available by default on Windows 7 and beyond. Requires administrative privilege.

Serial Tool

Interactive client that may be used to open a serial port, send, and receive data.

SMTP Client Tool

An SMTP client.

SMTP Server Tool

An SMTP server based on the SmtpServer library that logs messages to a text box.

Sniffer Tool

An elementary tool that sniffs IPv4 packets using raw sockets. Requires administrative privilege.

TCP Client Tool

Interactive TCP/IP client that may be used to establish IPv4 TCP sessions, send, and receive data.

TCP Listener Tool

Interactive TCP/IP client that may be used as a rudimentary listener/server.

UDP Tool

Interactive UDP/IP client that may be used to establish IPv4 UDP sockets, send, and receive datagrams.

WebSocket Tool

Interactive WebSocket client that may be used to establish WebSocket sessions, send, and receive data. It is built with .NET's native implementation of WebSockets, and requires at least Windows 8.

WebSocket Server Tool

Interactive WebSocket server based on either System.Net.HttpListener or a self-hosted WCF service. WCF service is configured through App.config to run at port 8087, and in code to run at end point specified by user. Supports SSL. Requires at least Windows 8.

WebSocketSharp Tool

Interactive WebSocket client that may be used to establish WebSocket sessions, send, and receive data. It is built with WebSocketSharp and works on Windows 7, or better. An HTTP proxy may be specified so WebSocket sessions can be debugged using Fiddler.

WebSocketSharp Server Tool

Self-hosted service built with WebSocketSharp, and works on Windows 7, or better. Data can be sent to and received from WebSocket clients. Supports SSL.

Related Tools

• ncat
• SoapUI
• Telerik Fiddler
• Tera Term

Useful Tools

• netstat
• tcpdump
• Sysinternals Suite
  • TCP View
• WinDump
• Wireshark (recommend replacing WinPcap with npcap on Windows)