The following are list of some tools that might be useful for network management.
Scanning tools
- nessus
- portscan
- strobe
- arpwatch
Throughput measurement
- ttcp
- netperf
- iperf
Analysis of tcpdump output
- sanitize (remove privacy or security information)
- tcpdpriv (removing sensitive infromation)
- tcpflow (capture a flow)
- tcp-reduce (make tcpdump trace file into one-line summaries)
- tcpshow (put trace file in a nice format)
- tcpslice (extracting pieces from trace file)
- tcptrace (extract data from trace files, e.g. summaries, data for graph ploting)
Traffic Generators
- spray
- mgen
- nemesis
- ipfilter (includes ipsend)
- ipload (Windows)
Other tools
- ntop
- Neo
- Scotty/Tkined
- OSU Flow-Tools, work with Cisco Netflow data