Top 15 wicd Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

1. OpenSSH

OpenSSH OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users rely on. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH protocol versions.......

2. IQonn Lite

IQonn Lite IQonn.com is a community that offers Mobile travellers the tools needed to be truly nomadic. If you have any Mobile Data subscription, Notebook with a Wireless device or data card and you are Out of Office frequently, then IQonn.com is the place for you. IQonn.com provides you with all the......

3. iw

iw iw is a new nl80211 based CLI configuration utility for wireless devices. It supports almost all new drivers that have been added to the kernel recently. It allows you to configure and show information about wireless networking. In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless......

4. BIRD

BIRD BIRD is an open source implementation of a TCP/IP routing daemon for Unix like systems. It supports both IPv4 and IPv6, multiple routing tables, and a BGP, RIP and OSPF routing protocols, as well as statically defined routes.......

5. LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment

LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment Linux Embedded Development Environment, an embedded Linux distribution that makes it easy for developers, system administrators or other Linux enthusiasts to build and customize software for embedded devices, especially wireless routers.The LEDE project was set up in a different way compared to OpenWrt:1. All our communication channels are public, some......

6. wpa_supplicant

wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are included with wpa_supplicant.......

7. GnuPG

GnuPG GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. A wealth of frontend......

8. GPGshell

GPGshell GPGshell is a Windows GUI for the GNU Privacy Guard - an open source software suite for public-key cryptography compatible with PGP. It provides a simple-ish interface to manage the encryption keys, encrypt and sign files, check the signatures and the like. It is freeware (though, unlike GPG, not free......

9. wavemon

wavemon wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch signal and noise levels, packet statistics, device configuration and network parameters of your wireless network hardware. It should work (though with varying features) with all devices supported by the Linux wireless kernel extensions by Jean Tourrilhes.......

10. gstreamer

gstreamer GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.......

11. Toolsley PGPigeon

Toolsley PGPigeon PGPigeon is a simple but powerful OpenPGP-compatible message encryption webapp based on the openpgp.js library.You can encrypt and decrypt messages, sign and verify signatures (of signed plaintext messages as well as encrypted ones). The encrypted message can be sent over email or any other channel. Fetching keys from key servers......

12. NetStumbler

NetStumbler NetStumbler is a tool for Windows that allows you to detect Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) using 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g. It has many uses:Verify that your network is set up the way you intended, find locations with poor coverage in your WLAN, detect other networks that might be causing......

13. Broadcom-STA

Broadcom-STA These packages contain Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux device driver for use with Broadcom-based hardware. The hybrid binary file is agnostic to the specific version of the Linux kernel because it is designed to perform all interactions with the operating system through operating-system-specific files and an operating system abstraction layer......

14. ethstatus

ethstatus Ethstatus is a console-based monitoring utility for displaying statistical data of the ethernet interface on a quantity basis. It is similar to iptraf but is meant to run as a permanent console task to monitor the network load.......

15. ThinkVantage Access Connections

ThinkVantage Access Connections Feature-full network connection manager available only for supported Lenovo/IBM notebook computer models. Supports: automatic profile switching, Windows login integration, multiple wired/wireless connections per profile, VPN connection management, proxy server settings, Windows Firewall activation/deactivation, default printer setting, common home and enterprise networking authentication and encryption types, and custom configurations of all......