Network Protocol
Stubbing

Pre-bundled protocols controllable by humans / LLMs for network testing

Demo Install
CLI
or
MCP
Client
HTTP / DNS / TCP ...
netget
  • LLM
  • Script
  • Human

Example prompts

Return sassy responses on HTTP 8080

DHCP-advertise self as gateway/DNS; DNS-resolve all to self; HTTP always return Hello World.

Connect to PostgreSQL on localhost:5432 and send select query with an invalid UTF-8 continuation byte; log response

Provide life coaching services over Telnet.

298 Protocols

transport TCP UDP TFTP QUIC TLS Unix domain socket Named pipe Pseudoterminal Standard I/O
link & raw Ethernet frames ARP ICMP IGMP NDP Raw IP TUN/TAP CAN bus LLDP Cisco Discovery Protocol Spanning Tree Protocol EAP over LAN VRRP HSRP Wake-on-LAN
web HTTP/1.1 HTTP/2 HTTP/3 WebSocket WebTransport Socket.IO Proxy HTTP proxy SOCKS5 ICAP FastCGI OpenAPI GraphQL RSS CoAP Lightweight M2M SSE
naming & time DNS DNS over TLS DNS over HTTPS DNS over QUIC Multicast DNS LLMNR NetBIOS Name Service SSDP DHCP DHCPv6 BOOTP NTP WHOIS RDAP EPP WS-Discovery
remote access SSH SSH agent Telnet rsh (server, client) rlogin (server, client) rexec (server, client) VNC RDP RDP client SPICE Reverse shell X11 Guacamole
mail, news & chat SMTP IMAP POP3 JMAP ManageSieve NNTP IRC XMPP LMTP SMPP Milter Matrix ActivityPub
media & voice SIP H.323 (gatekeeper, endpoint) RTP RTSP RTMP SRT HTTP Live Streaming WebRTC STUN TURN ONVIF
queues MQTT MQTT-SN Zenoh AMQP 0-9-1 AMQP 1.0 Apache Kafka NATS STOMP Amazon SQS Apache ZooKeeper Beanstalkd Gearman NSQ ZeroMQ Apache Pulsar
databases MySQL PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server IBM Db2 Snowflake Redis Memcached MongoDB MongoDB server Apache CouchDB Apache Cassandra Elasticsearch InfluxDB Amazon DynamoDB DynamoDB (alias) etcd Neo4j Bolt ClickHouse
files & storage FTP Amazon S3 NFS Network Block Device iSCSI (target, initiator) NVMe over TCP (target, host) FUSE local filesystem (Linux) HDFS (NameNode and DataNode, client) SMB server SMB client WebDAV CalDAV CardDAV IPP OCI registry LPD 9P rsync AFP (server, client) SunRPC NIS/YP (server, client)
auth OAuth 2.0 OpenID OpenID Connect SAML SAML identity provider SAML service provider LDAP RADIUS Kerberos TACACS+ Diameter HashiCorp Vault SCIM ACME RadSec
rpc & agents gRPC gRPC-Web Connect RPC gNMI NETCONF RESTCONF JSON-RPC XML-RPC Apache Thrift WAMP Model Context Protocol Agent2Agent Modbus MessagePack-RPC Cap'n Proto RPC D-Bus
clusters Kubernetes Kubernetes API server Apache Spark Apache Hadoop YARN Direct Connect NMDC file transfers ADC / ADCS ADC file transfers Soulseek Soulseek peer browsing Gnutella Docker Engine API Consul
vpn & tunnels WireGuard OpenVPN IPsec Tor VXLAN GRE
routing & telecom BGP BGP Monitoring Protocol OSPF IS-IS RIP RPKI to Router M3UA (SS7: SCCP, TCAP, MAP, CAMEL) GTP BFD OpenFlow (controller, switch) PFCP NGAP (5G N2) TR-069 (CWMP)
vcs & packages Git Mercurial Apache Subversion npm PyPI Apache Maven
p2p Bitcoin Ethereum devp2p BitTorrent tracker BitTorrent DHT BitTorrent peer Nostr libp2p Stratum Stratum V2
games RCON A2S Minecraft
classic internet Finger Gopher Ident DICT Gemini Echo
observability SNMP Redfish Syslog Graylog GELF Fluentd Forward Grafana Loki IPFIX sFlow NetFlow v9 Prometheus Prometheus Remote Write Zabbix OpenTelemetry Protocol StatsD Graphite Network UPS Tools Zipkin
healthcare HL7 DICOM
finance FIX
industrial & energy BACnet/IP DNP3 EtherNet/IP (CIP) IEC 60870-5-104 OCPP OPC UA EtherCAT (slave, master) PROFINET IO (device, controller) M-Bus (gateway, master) S7comm KNX/IP LoRaWAN (network server, gateway) Zigbee coordinator NCP (EZSP over TCP)
usb USB USB keyboard USB mouse USB serial USB mass storage USB FIDO2 USB smart card
bluetooth & nfc Bluetooth LE Bluetooth LE client BLE beacon BLE battery BLE heart rate BLE thermometer BLE environmental sensing BLE weight scale BLE cycling BLE running BLE proximity BLE keyboard BLE mouse BLE gamepad BLE presenter BLE remote BLE data stream BLE file transfer NFC NFC client
llm backends Ollama OpenAI API Anthropic

Install

CLI

Prebuilt binary (macOS, Linux, Windows):

npx -y @smotana/netget
pnpx @smotana/netget
yarn dlx @smotana/netget
bunx @smotana/netget

Or install globally:

npm install -g @smotana/netget
pnpm add -g @smotana/netget
yarn global add @smotana/netget
bun add -g @smotana/netget

MCP

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json), Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json), Windsurf (~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json) and most other MCP clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netget": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@smotana/netget", "--mcp"]
    }
  }
}
claude mcp add netget -- npx -y @smotana/netget --mcp
codex mcp add netget -- npx -y @smotana/netget --mcp
gemini mcp add netget npx -y @smotana/netget --mcp
code --add-mcp '{"name":"netget","command":"npx","args":["-y","@smotana/netget","--mcp"]}'

From source

System libraries:

brew install samba libusb pkgconf cmake
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config cmake libclang-dev libssl-dev libltdl-dev \
    libpcap-dev libdbus-1-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libpcsclite-dev libsmbclient-dev
sudo dnf install gcc gcc-c++ make pkgconf-pkg-config cmake clang-devel openssl-devel libtool-ltdl-devel \
    libpcap-devel dbus-devel libusb1-devel pcsc-lite-devel libsmbclient-devel
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel cmake clang openssl libpcap dbus libusb pcsclite smbclient

Install from source:

cargo install --locked netget-tool