⚠︎ Hello HUMANS, it most powerful wifi Hijacking tool written in RUST follow the setup instructions get full speed of your internet to you ⚠︎
Give your household's network a bedtime.
Throttle every device on your Wi-Fi to a crawl, and grant full speed only to who you choose.
One binary. No app, no router firmware, no cloud account.
$ sudo curfew
Curfew is on ● watching your network (checked 14 times)
No bedtime hours set — internet stays slowed all the time.
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192.168.1.42 you full speed
192.168.1.27 Kid's iPad slowed right down
192.168.1.144 aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff slowed right down
Data slowed so far: 4.2MB · Data at full speed: 1.1GB
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1) Give a device full speed
2) Take full speed away from a device
3) Set bedtime hours (when to slow the internet)
4) Give a device a nickname
5) See what's been happening
6) Change how slow the internet is
7) Give everyone full speed for a while
0) Stop Curfew (put everyone back to normal)
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Choose an option:
Quick install (no repo clone needed) — downloads a prebuilt binary:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xer0bit/curfew/master/setup.sh | bash
Prebuilt binaries currently cover Linux x86_64 only. For other
architectures (e.g. Raspberry Pi), build from source:
git clone https://github.com/Xer0bit/curfew
cd curfew
cargo build --release
sudo ./target/release/curfew
The first sudo run installs itself to /usr/local/bin/curfew automatically.
Every run after that, from anywhere, is just sudo curfew.
No prebuilt binary yet — the same setup.sh builds from source (installs
Rust via rustup if needed):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xer0bit/curfew/master/setup.sh | bash
Needs Homebrew (for nmap and dsniff, which the script installs for you).
No built-in equivalent of Linux tc or macOS dnctl/pfctl, so the Windows
build depends on two third-party drivers: Npcap (ARP
spoofing) and WinDivert (traffic
shaping). Both need a one-time manual install (they show their own
installer/license prompts). From an elevated PowerShell:
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xer0bit/curfew/master/setup.ps1 | iex
The script checks for both drivers, tells you exactly what to install if
they're missing, then builds from source and installs to
C:\ProgramData\Curfew\curfew.exe. The Windows backend is newer and less
battle-tested than Linux — if traffic shaping or ARP spoofing misbehaves,
that's the first place to look; please file an issue with what you saw.
Operating system: Linux, macOS, and Windows. The throttling mechanism is different on each, since none of the three expose a shared way to shape another device's traffic:
| OS | ARP spoofing | Traffic shaping |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | arpspoof (dsniff) |
tc (HTB) |
| macOS | arpspoof (dsniff) |
pfctl + dnctl (dummynet) |
| Windows | pnet + Npcap driver |
WinDivert driver (userspace token bucket) |
Linux is the original, most-tested implementation. macOS reuses the same CLI-tool approach with OS-native equivalents. Windows is architecturally the most different (no built-in shaping primitive at all) and needs the two extra drivers above.
Architecture: any architecture Rust targets — x86_64, aarch64/arm64,
armv7 — the binary has no architecture-specific code of its own; it only
needs the platform's required tools (below) to exist. Runs well on a
Raspberry Pi (aarch64/armv7) as a low-power always-on box on the network.
Required tools:
| Platform | Command |
|---|---|
| Debian / Ubuntu | apt install iproute2 nmap dsniff iputils-arping |
| Fedora / RHEL | dnf install iproute nmap dsniff iputils |
| Arch Linux | pacman -S iproute2 nmap dsniff iputils |
| macOS | brew install nmap dsniff |
| Windows | Npcap, WinDivert, nmap on PATH |
Network requirement: the interface you select must be your machine's actual station (client) Wi-Fi connection to your router — not a hotspot/AP interface, monitor-mode interface, or a VPN/tunnel interface. Devices on cellular data, a VPN, or a separate guest network/VLAN aren't reachable and won't be affected.
Licensing note: Npcap and WinDivert are third-party drivers with their
own licenses (both free for this kind of open-source, non-commercial use;
see their sites for commercial redistribution terms). Curfew doesn't bundle
either — setup.ps1 links you to the official installers.
sudo curfew
Set a password on first run. Pick your Wi-Fi interface. Everything else on
the network gets throttled automatically — pick option 1 to give a device
(yourself, your partner) permanent full speed, saved across restarts. Change
how slow everyone else is at any time with option 6, or hand out a
temporary full-speed break (homework's done, movie night) with option 7
that ends on its own. 0 or Ctrl+C restores everyone instantly. The
dashboard refreshes itself every couple of seconds, so it's always showing
current state.
Parental controls that live in an app or a router UI are one factory reset away from being gone. Curfew is a single password-gated binary you run when you want the house offline and books open.
Only run this on a network you own. It works by ARP spoofing — using it on a network with other people's devices you don't control is a privacy violation and likely illegal.
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