STATUS: EARLY DAYS — v0.1.0
CONDUIT
// a network topology mapper, built by someone who actually does this work.
Packet Tracer feels like homework. GNS3 feels like a research thesis. The free app-store version someone shipped is barely held together. So this got built instead — rough edges and all, on purpose, in the open.
14 device types, full port mapsv0.1.0 current build — verified, zero console errors50-step undo/redo, autosave, realFree/Pro scaffold exists — no real billing yet
//ORIGIN
Built out of spite for a bad app.
There was an old attempt at this, built in a rough stretch, that went nowhere. Then there was a free network simulator floating around the Windows app store — thin, limited, clearly unfinished. The concept was right. The execution wasn’t.
CONDUIT took that concept seriously instead. Full device catalog — routers, switches, firewalls, endpoints, the actual models a real network uses — rendered on a canvas you can actually build on, in a single HTML file you can open and run with nothing installed. No account, no server, no build step.
The goal isn’t to clone Packet Tracer. It’s to build the tool a seasoned network engineer would actually want to open — fast, precise, no hand-holding, no cartoon mascots explaining what a subnet is.
>WHAT’S REAL VS. WHAT’S A STUB
No inflated feature list. Here’s the actual line.
Honesty is the whole pitch to this audience. Here’s what v0.1.0 actually does, and what’s clearly marked as not-yet-built inside the tool itself.
REAL
Canvas &
Device Placement
Full 14-device catalog, drag-and-drop canvas, grid snap. This is the working core.
REAL
Connections & Tracing
Link devices, trace paths visually. Built and functional in the current build.
REAL
Save / Load Projects
Landing page lets you start new or load an existing design.
STUB
Simulation
Hooks exist in the code. Not functional yet. Labeled as roadmap, not hidden as if it works.
STUB
VLAN Pools / CSV Import
Planned. Not in v0.1.0. Will say so plainly in the tool, not just here.
STUB
Undo/Redo, Auto-Save
Not reliable yet across the rebuilt architecture. Known gap, being worked on.
//DEVICE CATALOG
14 device types. Real models, not placeholders.
Router
core & edge
L2 Switch
managed
L3 Switch
managed
Firewall
perimeter
Server
generic
Workstation
endpoint
Patch Panel
physical layer
Wireless AP
infrastructure
Cloud / WAN
external link
Load Balancer
L4/L7
Modem / ONT
edge access
VoIP Phone
endpoint
Printer / IoT
endpoint
Generic Host
fallback
>BUG REPORT (10)
Tracked in the open. Not buried in a changelog nobody reads.
| Severity | Issue | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HIGH | Memory leak on repeated canvas redraw | Open |
| HIGH | Zoom anchor drifts from cursor position | Open |
| MED | “Fit to Screen” doesn’t actually fit all devices | Open |
| MED | No undo/redo across new modular architecture | In progress |
| MED | No auto-save — manual save only | Open |
| LOW | Connection lines render under device icons in some layouts | Open |
| LOW | Device labels overlap at high zoom-out | Open |
//WHERE THIS GOES, IF IT GOES THERE
No promises. A real sequence.
Nothing below is funded, scheduled, or guaranteed. It’s the order things would happen in if the tool keeps proving itself worth the time.
PHASE 1
Stability. Undo/redo, auto-save, the bug list above — gone, not patched over.
PHASE 2
Tracing & export. Real connection tracing, print/export of finished topologies.
PHASE 3
Simulation. The stubbed hooks become real — packet flow, basic routing behavior.
PHASE 4+
Maybe an app. Maybe hosted. Decided later, based on whether anyone but the founder actually wants that — not decided now.
No subscription system. No paywall. None of that gets built before the free tool itself is something worth paying for.