News @ ntop: Github, Mobile-Aware web site, IPv6, Travis
Even though these might look like cosmetic changes, we are committed to create better software to serve our community. In the past couple of weeks: We have migrated the server to a new site that is now...
View ArticleIntroducing nDPI 1.6
This is to announce the availability of nDPI 1.6, a maintenance release that consolidates this open source deep packet inspection library. This is going to be the last version of the 1.x branch, as we...
View ArticleSay hello to ntopng 2.0
After 9 months of development, we are pleased to announce the release of ntopng 2.0. This is a major release as we have reworked many application components and made the application robust and usable...
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Exploring your traffic using ntopng with ElasticSearch+Kibana
ntopng allows you to export monitoring data do external sources. For low-traffic sites, SQLite and the ntopng historical interface can be a good option. As your traffic increases you are forced to put...
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Lessons learnt at #SharkFest15
Last week we have made a couple of presentations at SharkFest 2015, introducing to the Wireshark community what ntopng is about. The most interesting part has been the feedback of those who attended...
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Using ntopng to Implement a WiFi Access Point with Layer 7 Traffic Enforcement
This post will teach you how to create a cheap WiFi access point able to enforce layer-7 application protocols. In order to do this you can use a cheap RaspberryPi or BeagleBoard with a USB WiFi...
View ArticleReleased nDPI 1.7
This is to announce the release of nDPI 1.7. In addition to many new/updated dissectors, the main change of this release is the ability to identify subprotocols. For instance a DNS request Facebook is...
View ArticleYes, There’s Life After NetFlow
At ntop we’ve been playing with NetFlow/IPFIX since more than 10 years and been part of its standardisation. While we acknowledge that concept of flow (a set of packets with common properties such as...
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Exploring Historical Data Using ntopng
In the original ntopng it was possible to navigate historical information using a so called “Historical Interface”. Such interface was a logical network interface able to read flow data from a SQLite...
View ArticlePF_RING now supports Accolade, Myricom, Napatech at 10/40/100 Gbit (and...
For years we have optimised PF_RING to support multi-10 Gbit/40 Gbit operations in zero-copy at line rate using ZC. Our users know that using PF_RING they can operate at line rate in RX+TX, balance...
View ArticleUsing (Suricata over) PF_RING for NIC-Independent Acceleration
In the past few years we have tried to open PF_RING in an attempt to turn it into the “new pcap” API for packet processing. Recently we have added native support for speedy FPGA-based NICs and thus...
View ArticleIntroducing PF_RING 6.2
This is to announce the release of PF_RING 6.2 that has several improvements with respect to the previous version. As previously accounted, we have extended support of non-Intel devices in PF_RING to...
View Articlentopng 2.2 Just Released
After over 6 months of work, we’re pleased to announce the release of ntopng 2.2 (as already discussed even numbers identify stable releases whereas odd number development versions). The goal of this...
View ArticleInterview with Luca Deri
For all our Italian-speaking friends, yesterday I have been interviewed by an Italian magazine. This is the link to the interview. Enjoy!
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Ntopng Integration with Nagios
This tutorial shows how to properly configure nagios and ntopng (Professional) in order to send asynchronous ntopng-generated alerts to nagios. Prerequisites It is assumed that the following software...
View Articlentop 2016 Roadmap
2015 has been a year full of activities that allowed us to consolidate our tools and thus provide a better service to the community. In 2016 the plan is the following: 100 Gbit As in 2015 we have added...
View ArticleYou’re invited to the ntop Meetup at Flocon 2016
Topic: ntop Meetup – Affordable High-Speed Sensors Everywhere Abstract: Come and meet Luca Deri, members of the ntop team, and fellow “ntop stack” users and partners as we talk about making...
View ArticleJoin us at the San Francisco Network Visibility Meetup on Jan 19th
After the Flocon 2016 meetup we held this week, next week we’re organising a meetup for our users of the bay area where we will discuss a new arguments including high-speed sensors and network...
View ArticleTowards 100-Gbit Flow-Based Network Monitoring
Last week we have previewed at FlowCon 2016 conference our new 100 Gbit probe called nProbe cento (cento is 100 in Italian). You can find our presentation slides here. We believe that it is important...
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Using nfsen-like Traffic Profiles in ntopng
One of the great features of nfsen is the ability to specify filters for identifying specific traffic and thus aggregate and graph it. In ntopng we aggregate traffic per host and networks. However...
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