CS 330: Resources
Fall 2026
Development Environment
- Visual Studio Code – A lightweight code editor with debugging tools.
- GCC – GNU Compiler Collection for C/C++ and more.
- GDB – Debugger for programs written in C, C++, etc.
- Microsoft Visual Studio – Full-featured IDE for many languages.
- Apache NetBeans – IDE supporting C/C++, Java, PHP, etc.
Packet Capture & Network Analysis
Passive Capture
- Wireshark – Packet capture and protocol analysis tool.
- TCPDump &
libpcap– Command-line packet capture and analysis tools. - NetworkMiner – Network forensic analysis tool.
- tcpflow – Captures and reconstructs TCP flows from packet captures.
tcptrace– Command-line tool for analyzing TCP dump files.- Arkime (formerly Moloch) – Full-packet-capture indexing and search platform.
- Note: Microsoft Message Analyzer (retired 2019)
Netwox Suite (no longer actively maintained)
netwox– Toolbox for network testing.netwib– Library used by netwox.netwag– GUI front-end for netwox.
Network Monitoring & Intrusion Prevention
- Suricata – IDS/IPS engine with full packet logging capabilities.
Active Capture / Interception
Connectivity & Port Scanning
- Nmap – Network mapping and port scanning.
- Masscan – Fast port scanner.
- netcat – Send and receive data over arbitrary TCP/UDP ports.
- Hping – Network tool for security auditing.
- netdiscover – Discover live hosts on a network.
Network Services & Protocol Utilities
- curl / wget – Command-line tools for transferring data over network protocols.
- HTTPie – User-friendly command-line HTTP client.
- dnsmasq – Lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server.
Web Testing / Proxies
- Burp Suite – Web app security testing tool.
- OWASP ZAP – Open-source web app scanner.
- mitmproxy – SSL-capable HTTP proxy.
- Charles Proxy – GUI HTTP proxy.
- Fiddler – HTTP debugging proxy.
- w3af – Web app attack and audit framework.
- HTTrack – Website copier and offline browsing tool.
Network Spoofing
- arpspoof – Simple ARP spoofer.
System Utilities
- Sysinternals Suite – Windows system utilities.
- NirSoft – Small Windows utilities, including password tools.
API Development
- Postman – API testing and development.
- RESTful Tutorial – Concepts of REST APIs.
Supplemental Material
Interactive Learning
- Interactive Exercises – Companion to the Kurose & Ross textbook with quizzes and animations.
- Beej’s Guide to Network Programming – A hands-on guide to socket programming in C.
- High Performance Browser Networking – What every web developer should know about networking and web performance.
- Eloquent JavaScript – A book about JavaScript, programming, and digital concepts.
- Principles of Chaos Engineering – Understand how resilience is tested in distributed systems.
- Programmable Web – (Retired) Formerly a hub for APIs and mashups.
Code Repositories
- BIND 9 GitLab Repository – Source code and issue tracker for the BIND DNS server.
Key References
- Root Servers Map – Overview of global DNS root server infrastructure.
- IANA – Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- Service Name & Port Number Registry
- CERN WorldWideWeb Rebuild (2019) – Interactive historical browser demo.
- The CERT Division – Carnegie Mellon
- Assigned Internet Protocol Numbers
- IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group
- ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- The Wayback Machine
Key References & RFCs
See the RFC Index for official protocol specs. Notable examples:
- HTTP: RFC 7230–7235, RFC 7540 (HTTP/2), draft for HTTP/3.
- DNS: RFC 1034, RFC 1035, RFC 8484 (DoH).
- TCP: RFC 793, RFC 1122, RFC 5681.
- UDP: RFC 768, RFC 8085.
- IP: RFC 791, RFC 2460 (IPv6), RFC 1958.
- SMTP/IMAP/POP3: RFC 5321, RFC 3501, RFC 1939.
- DHCP: RFC 2131, RFC 3046.
- BGP/OSPF/ARP: RFC 1771, RFC 2328, RFC 826.
