Using sysdig from PF_RING (and soon from all ntop apps)
Months ago Draios Inc introduced sysdig a kernel module and user-space library for capturing systems events and thus analyse what is happening on a Linux box. The idea has been immediately appealing...
View ArticleActive vs Passive Polling in Packet Processing
From time to time, PF_RING users ask us whether they should use passive polling techniques (i.e. call pfring_poll()) or use active polling that basically means to implement an active loop until the...
View ArticleReleased nDPI 1.5.1 and ntopng 1.2.1
Today we have released a maintenance version of both nDPI and ntopng that address minor issues present in the previous stable release. In particular for ntopng we have addressed many small security...
View ArticleRunning ntopng and nDPI on MacOSX
On Mac OS X users expect simple tool packaging and installation. Initially we planned to distribute .dmg files containing our apps, but then we have decided that in order to support current and future...
View ArticlePF_RING 6.0.2 Released: DKMS, Sysdig, Hardware Timestamps and much more
Today we have released a maintenance release of PF_RING that includes many fixes and enhancements. In particular: we have moved our binary packages over DKMS that will make them independent from kernel...
View ArticleIntroducing nProbe v7
After more than three years of work, we are announcing the release of nProbe v7. This is a major evolution of v6 that many of you used in the bast few years. In essence we have worked a lot for...
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Combining System and Network Visibility using nProbe and Sysdig
Introduction When in 1998 we have started the development of the original ntop, there were many Unix tools for monitoring network traffic: ping, tcpdump, netstat, and many others. Nevertheless we have...
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How to Promote Scalability with PF_RING ZC and n2disk
The number of cores per CPU is growing at a rate governed by the Moore’s law. Nowadays even low-end CPUs come with at least 4/8 cores and people want to exploit all of them before buying a new machine....
View ArticleBuilding a (Cheap) 2×10 Gbit (Continuous) Packet Recorder using n2disk and...
Continuous packet recorders are devices that capture network traffic and save it to disk. The term continuous means that this activity is performed “continuously” until the device is active and not...
View ArticleAccelerating Snort, Bro and Suricata with PF_RING ZC
Over the past few months we have spent quite some time to accelerate popular open-source IDS/IPS with PF_RING ZC. The result is that you now have the option to select your favourite security product as...
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Using ntop Applications with Docker and OpenStack
In order to ease the deployment of our applications, in addition to source code distribution, we have released binary packages (x64 and ARM) for CentOS/RedHat and Ubuntu/Debian. For PF_RING, that...
View Articlentop 2015 Roadmap
Like every year, we have made a short-term plan for the first half 2015. As we are a research-oriented company, we plan to tackle open issues or provide better answer to existing ones. This is our...
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Come to see the new ntopng at CeBIT 2015
As you might have noticed, we are busy working at ntopng. We will soon publish a blog post where we summarise the current activities and what is still missing before the next version of ntopng will be...
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How to Enforce Layer-7 Traffic Policies Using ntopng
ntopng has been traditionally used to passively monitoring network traffic. However as years ago IDS (Intrusion Detection System) became mature products and eventually became IPS (Intrusion Prevention...
View ArticleMoving towards ntopng 2.0
As you know, our plan is to release ntopng 2.0 later this spring. While we are still coding the last missing features, we have start packaging the tool so that you can start testing it. We have decided...
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Using ntopng (pre) 2.0 on a Ubiquity EdgeRouter
As the release of ntopng 2.0 is around the corner (we are fixing the last bugs, polishing the GUI and writing some documentation), we want to show how to turn a cheap device such as the Ubiquity...
View Articlentopng Deep Dive: Interview with Ivan Pepelnjak
Last month Ivan Pepelnjak interviewed me on Software Gone Wild about ntop and ntopng. The main topic of the interview were: How it all started and why did Luca decide to start the ntop (and PF_RING)...
View ArticlePF_RING 6.0.3 Just Released
Today we have released PF_RING 6.0.3, a maintenance release that includes many fixes and small changes. The release changelog is listed below. PF_RING Library New pfring_open() flag...
View ArticlePF_RING Deep Dive: Interview with Ivan Pepelnjak
In late March, Ivan Pepelnjak interviewed me on Software Gone Wild about ntop and ntopng, and in a second interview about PF_RING. The main topic of the second interview have been: What is the...
View ArticleDo you want to work for ntop?
As ntop software is increasing in popularity, we need help for supporting our users and working at new developments. Therefore we are looking for someone to join our development time, help us, and...
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