The Serval Project Alternatives

The Serval Project is described as 'Serval is a telecommunications system comprised of at least two mobile phones that are able to work outside of regular mobile phone tower range due thanks to the Serval App and Serval Mesh' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to The Serval Project for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Apple TV apps. The best The Serval Project alternative is Hyphanet, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Serval Project are cjdns, Qaul, LibreMesh and dn42.

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  1. Hyphanet icon

    Hyphanet

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    Hyphanet (former Freenet) is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites".

    52 Hyphanet alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    cjdns

     45 likes

    Cjdns is a networking protocol and reference implementation, founded on the ideology that networks should be easy to set up, protocols should scale up smoothly, and security should be ubiquitous.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Qaul icon

    Qaul

     3 likes

    Ad-hoc wireless mesh-network suite that harnesses the power of everyday devices such as computers and smartphones to create a Democratic, Non-Centralized, Mesh Network.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • C++
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  5. LibreMesh icon

    LibreMesh

     18 likes

    LibreMesh is a set of modules extending the OpenWrt router distribution to create self-configuring wireless and wired mesh networks.

    22 LibreMesh alternatives

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    • Linux
    • OpenWrt
    • LEDE - Linux Embedded Development Environment
     
  6. dn42 icon

    dn42

     6 likes

    dn42 is a big dynamic VPN, which employs Internet technologies (BGP, whois database, DNS, etc). Participants connect to each other using network tunnels (GRE, OpenVPN, Tinc, IPsec) and exchange routes thanks to the Border Gateway Protocol.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. SMesh icon

    SMesh

     2 likes

    SMesh is a seamless wireless mesh network being developed by the Distributed System and Networks Lab at Johns Hopkins University.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Windows Mobile
     
  9. ninux icon

    ninux

     3 likes

    Ninux is an Italian wireless network community with the goal of creating and expanding a free, open and experimental computer network. It uses the OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing) Protocol, an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. CCNx icon

    CCNx

     2 likes

    The vision of Project CCNx® is to develop, promote, and evaluate a new approach to a communication architecture called content-centric networking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Apple TV
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  11. CoovaChilli icon

    CoovaChilli

     2 likes

    CoovaChilli is an open-source software access controller for captive portal (UAM) and 802.1X access provisioning, based on the popular (but now defunct) ChilliSpot project, and is actively maintained by an original ChilliSpot contributor.

    17 CoovaChilli alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • OpenWrt
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    Babel (protocol)

     2 likes

    Babel is a loop-avoiding distance-vector routing protocol for IPv6 and IPv4 with fast convergence properties. It is based on the ideas in DSDV, AODV and Cisco's EIGRP, but is designed to work well not only in wired networks but also in wireless mesh networks, and has been...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  14. WING icon

    WING

     1 like

    WING is an open-source Wireless Mesh Networking platform aimed at hobbyists and enthusiasts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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