Free im protocols software for linux

NetChat is a combination of NetCat and ppps "chat", put on steroids for high performance. It is meant as a network exercise tool.

Using simple "say this, expect this reply" scripts, NetChat can be made to easilly speak most text-based protocols (such as SMTP, HTTP, POP3 etc.), and many binary protocols, very easilly.

In addition to the above, NetChat is built to perform a large number of concurrent connections. This makes NetChat an ideal network protocol stress-test tool.

Current code is limited to client only and simple send/receive matching. Future extensions will include the ability to work in listen mode, as well as use random elements in the replies and requests.

Ayttm is an instant messaging (aka chat) client that provides all-in-one chat functionality for several major instant messaging services from one simple program. Ayttm "Contacts" allow you to refer to several accounts of the same person from a single contact name, making it one of the cleanest and simplest clients to use.
Ayttm is the heir of the Everybuddy project, and aims to continue improving the program and addressing its shortcomings. Our primary goal is to provide a messenger which is :
- simple: Ayttm should work nicely without having to first go through a complicated configuration procedure. The preferences should be simple and minimal.
- stable: Ayttm should not crash when you use it.
- intuitive: Ayttm should be almost instantly usable by my mother ;)
- flexible: Ayttm supports multiple protocols and they should be supported in an integrated manner (common interface, for example), without limiting protocol-specific features support. Ayttm currently handles Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, AIM and ICQ.
Ayttm is developed primarily for Linux but it is also available on BSD and Windows NT/2000 platforms.
Main features:
- Yahoo!
- MSN Messenger
- Jabber support (including SSL)
- IRC (Internet Relay Chat) support
- ICQ support
- AIM-TOC (AOL Instant Messenger)
- SMTP (for sending emails)
- File Transfers to/from MSN and Yahoo! users, and receive only from AIM users
- Group Chat (Conferences) with AIM, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo! users
- MSNs Netmeeting integration, using GnomeMeeting
- Yahoo Webcam viewing support
- Protocol Transparency - one buddy, one chat window, multiple accounts on multiple IM systems!
- Tabbed chat, with color alerts for new messages
- Themable smiley graphics
- Tooltips to track peoples status
- Conversation and group-chat logging
- File Transfer between Ayttm clients (with any protocol)
- Away mode and other status indicators
- Play sounds (with esd and artsd support)
- Asynchronous connections
- Support for multiple accounts on the same service for almost every service
- Auto-join to chatrooms
- Chat logs export
- Server-side userlist and groups management
- Automatic translation using Babelfish
- Automatic conversion to L33t-speak (yeah, we wanna have fun!)
- Importing of everybuddy, gnomeicu, gaim, and Licq buddy lists
- Keep notes on Contacts
- Rainbow colors in messages
- Digital signature and encrpytion plugin using GPG - compatible with kopete
- Typing notifications for MSN, Yahoo! and Jabber
- Spell checker

FSP stands for File Service Protocol. It is a very lightweight UDP based protocol for transferring files.
FSP has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. FSP protocol is valuable in all kinds of environments because it is one of the only TCP/IP protocols that is not aggressive about bandwidth, while still being sufficiently fault tolerant.
FSP is what anonymous FTP *should* be.
FSP: reliable and bandwidth friendly way to access publicly available data. Some people calls it UDP FTP.
Enhancements:
- use getopt from stdio.h instead of getopt.h in fspscan.c
- fspscan now compiles on AIX and other OS without glibc (hoaxter)
- !! fixed fatal bug from b23. Server sends large packets to clients if
- client request has not prefered reply size inside. This confuses all old fsp clients.
- common/strdup.c removed
- bsd_src/function.c bcopy -> memmove
- removed STDC_HEADER checks, drop support for pre-ANSI compilers started work on alternate SCons based build system
- fspd: use urandom, not random -> avoid hangs on Lin suck 2.6
- build system converted to SCons
- !! fixed directory listing bug in client library introduced in beta23
- improvements to security of FSP clients
- seq. numbers are now randomized
- seed random number generator in fsp clients
- check cmd in received packets
- check pos in received packets

Kf is a Jabber-based instant messaging client.
Jabber is an open-source, XML-based, highly extensible IM protocol.
Main features:
- see presence of your contacts
- chat and message them
- take part in conferences
- browse, search and register in transports
- view your message archive
- ...and much more!

IDX-tsunami is a distributed load testing tool. It is protocol-independent and can currently be used to stress HTTP, SOAP and Jabber servers.
It simulate users behaviour using an XML description file, report many measurements in real time (statistics can be customized with transactions, and graphics generated using gnuplot).
For HTTP, it support 1.0 and 1.1 version, has a proxy mode to record sessions, support GET and POST method, Cookies and Basic WWW-authentication. It also has support for SSL.
The purpose of IDX-Tsunami is to simulate users in order to test the scalability and performances of IP based client/server applications. You can use it to do load testing of your servers. Currently, HTTP and Jabber protocols have been implemented and tested, but it can be easily extended.
This tool can simulate thousands of users concurrently, and can be distributed on several client machines.
IDX-Tsunami has been used to validate the IM platform made by LibertySurf in 2001. 10.000 concurrent users were simulated on a cluster of 3 machines.
IDX-Tsunami has also been used to test a very high trafic web site. More than 3.000 HTTP/HTTPS requests/second were generated during this test
IDX-Tsunami is developped in Erlang, an open-source language made by Ericsson for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications.
Main features:
Main features
- High Performance: the load can be distributed on a cluster of client machines
- Multi-Protocols using a plugin system: HTTP and Jabber are currently supported. LDAP and SMTP are on the TODO list.
- SSL support.
- Several IP addresses can be used on a single machine using the underlying OS IP Aliasing
- OS monitoring (CPU, memory and network trafic) using Erlang agents on remote servers or SNMP. list.
- XML configuration system; several sessions can be used to simulate differents type of users.
- Stochastic processes: in order to generate a realistic trafic, user thinktimes and the arrival rate can be randomize using a probability distribution (exponential currently)
HTTP
- HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 support
- GET and POST requests
- Cookies
- GET If-modified since type of request
- WWW-authentication Basic
- Proxy mode to record sessions using a Web browser.
SOAP
- Basic support using the HTTP mode (the SOAPAction HTTP header is handle).
Jabber
- Authentication, presence and register messages
- Chat messages to online or offline users
- Roster set and get requests
- Global users synchronisation can be set on specific actions
Enhancements:
- HTTP proxy server load testing is now possible.
- The HTTP UserAgent header can be customized.
- Dynamic substitutions were implemented for the Jabber plugin.
- Several minor bugs were fixed, so it should work on Solaris now.

pyGAIM-t is a reworking of the popular GAIM IM client to be based on the Jabber transport, which can connect to any IM system that GAIM can.

Portslave is a RADIUS client used to create dialup access servers.

Portslave project uses the RADIUS protocol to authenticate from a remote RADIUS server which contains the actual user account information.

It primarily is for PPP access, but also works with other protocols and services.

Installation:

./configure --enable-shadow --with-pppdradius=/usr/sbin/pppd
make
make install

JIndex is a beagle clone. It tries to mimic the functionality of Beagle. JIndex is written in Java.
Format support:
- Music (Mp3)
- Documents (PDF, Doc, Openoffice formats)
- Images
- IM conversations