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Survey of freeware utilities: Networking

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Active Directory Users Password Resetter
This handy tool allows you to reset Active Directory user´s passwords without having to open Active Directory and searching for the user. It´s especially useful if you need to delegate password reset access to staff but don´t want them to have the full Active Directory installed.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Active-Directory-Users-Password-Resetter_program_73981.html
With Virtual WiFi Router, you can create a WiFi hotspot for WiFi Reverse Tethering for wifi supported mobiles and other wifi enabled computers to create a network and to share internet. Convert your PC into a WiFi hot spot for free.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Virtual-WiFi-Router_program_71840.html
Simple IP Config is a program written in AutoIt for Windows to easily change various network settings including IP Address, Subnet Mask, Gateway, and DNS Server.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Simple-IP-Config_program_70665.html
CloseTheDoor indentifies all the listening ports TCP/UDP over IPv4/v6 and the associated program files. This will help you to detect security holes and close backdoors when you want to prevent remote attacks.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/closethedoor/
The Network Monitor II (wired and wireless) will show you SSID, signal quality, Internal IP address, External IP address with your country flag when you are connected to the internet, network utilization, upload speed, download speed and total (both current session and global) of usage. It does not require any 3rd party applications.
http://www.myfavoritegadgets.info/monitors/NetworkMonitorII/networkmonitorII.html
Inguma is a penetration testing and vulnerability research toolkit. The framework includes modules that discover hosts, gather information, fuzz targets, brute force user names and passwords and attempt exploits. While the current exploitation capabilities are limited, the program provides numerous tools for information gathering and target auditing.

http://freecode.com/projects/inguma
Network Activity Indicator brings back the system tray network activity indicator found in previous versions of Windows
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/naindicator.html
ThinVNC is pure-web Remote Desktop solution. The remote computer can be accessed from any OS platform through any HTML5 compliant browser
http://www.supportsmith.com/ThinVNC/HTML5-VNC.aspx
MACAddressView enables you to look up the company name, address and country that is registered to the MAC address of a product (e.g. routers, computers and other network devices).
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/MACAddressView.html
WinPing is a ping program that offers several advanced options as well as graphical ping tracking.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winping.html
IP Network Configuration Tool
Tired of endless clicking to change your IP address? This system tray application gives easy access to changing, saving and loading your IP address information. Useful for people constantly hopping between networks.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipconfigtool01/
AD Tidy
Clean up your Active Directory
http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/
DL Manage
Easily schedule and automate AD group membership changes with this command line tool
http://www.cjwdev.co.uk/
CurrPorts displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer
http://www.freewarefiles.com/CurrPorts_program_15624.html
TCPView is a Windows program that will show you detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system, including the local and remote addresses and state of TCP connections. On Windows Server 2008, Vista, and XP, TCPView also reports the name of the process that owns the endpoint. TCPView provides a more informative and conveniently presented subset of the Netstat program that ships with Windows. The TCPView download includes Tcpvcon, a command-line version with the same functionality.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx
Active Directory Explorer
Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963907.aspx
LanTopolog is a freeware application that provides physical network topology discovery, visualization and monitoring.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/LanTopolog_program_38254.html
LAN Bridger is an easy-to-use VPN tool
http://www.lanbridger.com/
Network Simulator / Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. It provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks. It includes an optional network animator (nam).

http://freecode.com/projects/ns-2
Tunnelier is a fast, robust, easy to use SSH client for Windows with flexible TCP/IP tunneling support.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Tunnelier_program_12497.html
RouterPassView enables you to recover your router password and wireless network keys if you have a backup of your router configuration saved as local file.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/routerpassview.html
ShareWatcher logs and notifies you when your shared folders are accessed and when files are added to others shared locations.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/ShareWatcher_program_57102.html
NetTraffic is a network data rate monitoring tool.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/NetTraffic_program_55183.html
Active Directory User Manager
Tool to easily manage domain users in Active Directory. Allows to easily add and manage user accounts in Windows Domain.

http://adusermanager.codeplex.com/
Lizard Systems Network Scanner enables you to scan your network and produce a list of all machines that are currently connected, along with their IP address and host name.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lizscanner.html
Snort is a network intrusion detection and prevention system. It is the most widely deployed technology of its kind in the world. It performs detection using a variety of methods including rules-based detection, anomaly detection, and heuristic analysis of network traffic. Its rules language is open source and available to the public as well.

http://freecode.com/projects/snort
Netwag is a graphical network toolbox.
http://freecode.com/projects/netwag
WirelessNetView is a small utility that monitors wireless networks that are available within the reach of your adapter
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wlnetview.html
NetCon Manager
Network switcher
http://apps.nozavi.com/netcon-manager-overview
Access Road helps you model and learn about access rights in complex information systems, by the mean of user-friendly and powerful diagrams. It provides a set of very basic functions for the user, without data update. It allows you to model and display some predefined operating systems and simple software, to model and display graphical views about the access rights between any elements, and to justify these rights.

http://freecode.com/projects/aroad
Aeo3 Pingo is a networking connectivity testing utility.
http://aeo3.com/pingo/
Active Directory Query
Active Directory is an advanced hierarchical directory service used in Windows environments that store information about organizational attributes about component locations, users, groups, passwords, security, and other COM information. Chily Active Directory Query is a freeware that helps the administrator to keep the user information on finger-tips. This is a simple Active Directory query tool that displays detailed information of all objects saved by the user.
http://www.lepide.com/active-directory-query.html
Dialupass
Extract dialup/RAS/VPN passwords stored by Windows.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dialupass.html
NetXMS is a monitoring system with a modular architecture. It can be used for monitoring an entire IT infrastructure, starting with SNMP-capable hardware (like switches and routers) and ending with applications on servers. The system has a three-tier architecture; the information is collected by monitoring agents (either its own agents or SNMP agents) and delivered to the monitoring server for processing and storing, where it can be accessed by using the management console. It features centralized configuration and centralized agent upgrades.

http://freecode.com/projects/netxms/
AdvancedRemoteInfo allows you to gather various information about a remote Windows PC on the network.
http://masterbootrecord.de/docs/advancedremoteinfo.php
Wireshark is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education.
http://www.wireshark.org/
CAADR, or Cheap Ass Active Directory Reporter, is a set of scripts that can query and display user information from Active Directory.
http://freecode.com/projects/caadr
AnalogX AnonyMAC enables you to change the MAC address for any selected network adapter. You can choose to type your own MAC address or use a randomly generated one from a list of manufacturers that is supplied via an IEEE OUI database which can be updated over the Internet.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/anonymac.html
Pulse 2 is a tool that simplifies application deployment, inventory, and maintenance of an IT network. It has been designed to handle anywhere from dozens of computers on a single site to 100 000+ computers spread on many sites. It is an easy-to-use, safe, and flexible solution that lets you deploy new software and security updates on all your IT assets, perform software and hardware inventory, and perform remote diagnostics and remote management.

http://freecode.com/projects/pulse2
Remote Process Explorer enables you to manage processes on your local machine as well as on remote computers on the network (remote access rights must be available).
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/remprocexplorer.html
JPPF (Java Parallel Processing Framework) is an open source Grid Computing platform written in Java that makes it easy to run applications in parallel, and speed up their execution by orders of magnitude. Write once, deploy once, execute everywhere!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jppf-project/
FreeMeter Revival
This is a new implementation of the FreeMeter application. FreeMeter Revival is a simple, friendly network monitoring and diagnosis tool.

http://freemeterrevival.codeplex.com/
Likewise Open is an application that joins Linux, Unix, and Mac OS machines to Microsoft Active Directory and securely authenticates users with their domain credentials. Features include: joining non-Windows systems to Active Directory domains in a single step from the command line or from a GUI; authenticating users with a single user name and password; enforcing the same password policies for all platforms; supporting multiple forests with one-way and two-way cross forest trusts; caching credentials in case your domain controller goes down; and providing single sign-on for SSH and Putty. It does not require Active Directory schema changes for installation.

http://freecode.com/projects/likewiseopen
Real-Time NetFlow Traffic Analyzer monitors your NetFlow enabled device to help you determin the types of traffic traveling through the network, where it is coming from, and where it is going. The pr....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/swnetflow.html
phpLogCon is a Web front-end for syslog and other network event data. It provides easy browsing, searching, basic analysis, and some graphics. Data is taken from databases or plain syslog text files, so phpLogCon does not require changes to an existing logging infrastructure. Depending on the log data present, it can process syslog messages, Windows event log entries, and some more exotic things. Its troubleshooting support enables users to quickly find solutions to problems seen in the log data.
http://freecode.com/projects/phplogcon/
Bonjour for Windows
Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Bonjour uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically discover each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows.html
NetWrix Bulk Password Reset is a simple tool that enables network administrators to quickly change a user password across multiple network computers. The free version is suitable for small networks a....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/netwrixpwreset.html
Zenoss is an enterprise network/systems management application that provides an integrated software package for monitoring availability, performance, events, and configuration across layers (network, servers, applications, environment, etc.) and across platforms (Linux, Windows, Unix, etc.).

http://freecode.com/projects/zenoss/
Find MAC Address is a simple and easy-to-use tool for finding the MAC addresses of computers on the network. You can scan for MAC addresses and vendor information on your entire network or a specifie....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/findmacaddr.html
RadialNet is a network visualization tool. It consists in a graphical visualization of the networks mapped with Nmap, with some efforts to make it easy to find security problems.

http://freecode.com/projects/radialnet/
Bopup Scanner
Freeware LAN scanner
http://www.bopup.com/products/scanner/
Lansweeper
A free solution to make a software, hardware inventory of your windows network.
http://www.lansweeper.com/
Eusing Free IP Switcher
Eusing Free IP Switcher enables mobile users to quickly switch between different network settings with the click of a button. You can create up to 5 different profiles that define IP address and DNS....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/eipswitcher.html
BeyondCopy is a LAN hosts clipboard synchronism tool. BeyondCopy allows you to copy something in one computer, and paste it in another computer directly. It is useful if you have to work using two or more computers at the same time.

http://beyondcopy.sourceforge.net/
Wake On LAN Ex
Remotely turn network computers on.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Wake-On-LAN-Ex_program_16876.html
NetResView is an alternative to the `My Network Places` applet, that displays a list of all available network resources from all domains/workgroups, including computers, disk shares, and printer shar....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/netresview.html
RogueScanner is a network security tool for automatically discovering rogue wireless access points by scanning a wired network. It can also find all other network connected devices like printers, routers, Web cameras, and PCs.

http://freecode.com/projects/roguescanner/
WMI Asset Logger
Returns a great deal of information about windows based computer systems on your network.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_236_27650.html
Focus VideoPhone is a standalone video phone application that allows you to connect to other machines on the network and start a video conversation. The program provides a simple interface and an IP....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/focusvideophone.html
WinRemotePC Lite enables you to control a desktop remotely over the LAN or Internet. You can control the remote PC with your mouse and desktop, just as if sitting in front of it. The program comes wi....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winremotepclite.html
VNC Navigator enables you to manage up to 3 VNC servers from a simple control interface, that allows you to quickly connect to a selected server by simply double-clcking on the entry. It can save you....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/VNCNavigator.html
IP Sniffer
A suite of IP Tools built around a packet sniffer.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_98_14675.html
Axence Nettools
Measure network performance and diagnose network problems.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_98_16565.html
NetGraph
Small realtime network connection monitoring tool
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Network-Monitoring/NetGraph.shtml
Smartsniff
Captures TCP/IP packets and view the captured data as sequence of conversations.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_98_15601.html
AccountAudit enables network administrators to examine the user account database of a Domain Controller in a Windows Domain. It can report on common security risks such as accounts without password,....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/haccountaudit.html
FreePortScanner
Free Port Scanner is a small and fast port scanner for the Win32 platform.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_58_12691.html
WinAgents RouterTweak is a specialized terminal shell for easy configuration of Cisco routers, switches and firewalls. You can use the program to view the device configuration and automate the most c....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/waroutertweak.html
Seconfig XP
Security configuration utility for Windows.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_208_20440.html
myWIFIzone enables you to prevent freeloaders from using your WIFI network to surf the web without having to fiddle with your WIFI access point configuration. It can be installed on any machine on th....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mywifizone.html
Mapper24
Secure command network mapper
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Mapper-V_program_19178.html
Subnet Scanpro
PC Inventory and IP network scanner.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_98_18701.html
SisIYA is a system monitoring tool. You can monitor your Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows machines, switches, Airports, printers, UPSs, power switches, etc.

http://freecode.com/projects/sisiya/
Tellu collects hardware and software information from large FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows client networks. It consists of a client, a server, and a skin. The Tellu client resides on the client workstations and does its job as invisibly as possible. The client program collects information from the network and sends it to the server, which saves the data in a MySQL database. The skin is an optional interface top of the database. The server package also contains a monitoring server, which collects information about Tellu server.

http://freecode.com/projects/tellu/
Lanic is a simple network intercom that enables you to (voice)communicate between computers on the local network. The program needs to be copied (no install needed) to every machine, and can then be....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lanic.html
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Lanic_program_17447.html
FreeSysInfo
Discover system and network information on local or network machine.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/FreeSysInfo-V_program_17349.html
DhcpExplorer allows you to discover DHCP servers on your local subnet or LAN.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/DhcpExplorer_program_16929.html
FolderShare
Create a private peer-to-peer network. Synchronize or share files.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Windows-Live-FolderShare_program_13533.html
AdvancedRemoteInfo allows you to gather various information about a remote PC.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_169_10037.html
ntop is a network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes. In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a Web server, creating an HTML dump of the network status. It sports a NetFlow/sFlow emitter/collector, an HTTP-based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRD for persistently storing traffic statistics.

http://freecode.com/projects/ntop/
Netwox is a toolbox that helps to find and solve networks' problems.

http://freecode.com/projects/netwox/
Mila Netwhistler auto-detects networks and presents them on graphical maps, which reflect up-to-the-minute device and host status. It has powerful diagnostic tools, including ping, main services (FTP, SSH, SMTP, POP3, HTTP) monitoring, email alerts, network discovery, and SNMP tools (an MIB browser and Trap Console for incoming SNMP traps from any SNMP-enabled device in the network).

http://freecode.com/projects/netwhistler/
h-inventory provides Web-based hardware and software inventory management for Windows, Linux, and BSD machines. It permits incident declaration (breakdown) both anonymous and not. h-inventory provides incident and intervention management, user management, network management, incident types management, and scripts management

http://freecode.com/projects/hi/
RunasSpc enables you to run programs that require administrator privileges, without the need to enter the administrator password each time. It allows you to store the login information in an encrypte....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/runasspc.html
BORGChat
LAN chat program.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_53_13792.html
MerX .Network Scanner is a network file explorer that can scan local and remote shares and search for files and folders (by name or type). It includes a download manager with resume functionality to....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/merx.html
SecureCentral ScanFi
ScanFi is a web-based vulnerability assessment scanner for detecting and
assessing network vulnerabilities across heterogeneous ...
http://www.sofotex.com/SecureCentral-ScanFi-Free-Edition-download_L31955.html
EMCO Remote Registry Exporter is a tool for network administrators, that enables you to export specified registry keys from a remote machine, and save them to a local folder. The program can be usefu....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/emcoremreg.html
opsi (open PC server integration) is a software management and deployment system. It consists of an automatic software deployment system for Windows based PCs, a depot server which holds the software packages and configuration information, and automatic OS installation.

http://freecode.com/projects/opsi
NetworkActiv PIAFCTM
Network packet interceptor and analyzer
Steel Inventory is a network inventory auditing program, that allows you to keep track of software and hardware changes across your network. After an initial scan, you can generate a snapshot that in....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/steelinventory.html
The Linbox Rescue Server (LRS) is a tool to centralize hard disk images (like Ghost Enterprise Server), file backups, hardware inventory, Windows PCs software inventory, and remote access on a single server. It can be managed from any PC through a Web-based administration interface, and disk images can be restored using PXE boot and Multicast TFTP, or using a bootable CD or DVD. It supports Ext2/3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS.

http://freecode.com/projects/lrs/
Nodezilla is a secured, distributed, and fault tolerant routing system (or grid network) that supports distributed services such as file sharing, chat, efficient video multicast streaming, and secured file storage. It provides cache features where any server may create a local replica of any data object. These local replicas provide faster access and robustness to network partitions, and reduce network congestion by localizing access traffic. To ensure data protection, redundancy and cryptographic techniques are used.
http://www.nodezilla.net/
ManageEngine OpStor Free Edition
OpStor is an integrated storage network-monitoring tool offering fault recording, performance measuring, inventory and business ...
http://www.sofotex.com/ManageEngine-OpStor-Free-Edition-download_L30222.html
Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files.
http://www.bacula.org/
Packet Spy
Monitor incoming and outgoing packets from a given network.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/programs.php?ProgramID=12533&categoryid=9&subcategoryid=98
Network Management Tool
Add all of your network devices into the Network Management Tool, and you can quickly find vital information about any of your network devices (serial numbers, support contact information, etc.). A log for each device is kept so that you can enter service information about each device. There is an automatic export feature which will create a spreadsheet or database-ready file. Each list is easily edited with a Web interface.

http://freecode.com/projects/netmgmt/
Logalot
Logalot is a Web-based Microsoft Windows EventLog and syslog management system that allows users to centralize events to a bulletin board and create policies that trigger notifications when certain events are processed.

http://freecode.com/projects/logalot/
LanCalculator
LanCalculator is a tool to calculate subnet addresses and masks, including broadcast address, net address, net prefix and net mask inversion which is used in the access control lists (ACL) of Cisco n....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lancalc.html
ServersCheck Standard Edition
ServersCheck Standard Edition is a tool for monitoring, reporting and alerting on network and systems availability. The standard version can be used for free with up to 3 devices, which is adequate f....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/servercheckstd.html
LanSpy
Network scanner
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lanspy.html
Quest Reporter
Enables administrators, security officers and helpdesk staff to collect the data they need, whether for ...
http://www.sofotex.com/Quest-Reporter-download_L28782.html
TrafficEmulator
Nsasoft Network TrafficEmulator generates IP/ICMP/TCP/UDP traffic from clients to server to stress test servers,routers and ...
http://www.sofotex.com/TrafficEmulator-download_L27303.html
AdventNet ManageEngine OpUtils
provides real-time monitoring tools to troubleshoot poor network performance, heavy bandwidth ...
http://www.sofotex.com/AdventNet-ManageEngine-OpUtils-download_L26415.html
EventSentry Light
Is an event log and system monitoring application that enables system administrators to have eventlog messages ...
http://www.sofotex.com/EventSentry-Light-download_L22266.html
FREEping
Do you want to know if all your Windows 2003-XP-2000-NT servers are alive and pinging? Do you want to receive a pop-up message ...
http://www.sofotex.com/FREEping-download_L20908.html
Interface Traffic Indicator
a graph utility to measure incoming and outgoing traffic on an network interface in Bytes/sec. Works ...
http://www.sofotex.com/Interface-Traffic-Indicator-download_L19572.html