ntop and Silicom Inc join the forces

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Since a few months ntop and Silicom have started to work together on various network-related topics. The idea is to enhance PF_RING and  TNAPI in order to offer better products and support for both the community and Silicom customers. Furthermore, Silicom produces very advanced products such as the content director card and the packet processor […]

nProbe complies with the IPFIX specification

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Last week I have participated to an IPFIX interoperability event held in Prague, right before the IETF 80. In the picture below you can see me between Benoit Claise (Cisco, one of the IPFIX/NetFlow fathers) and Jiri Novotni (Invea-Tech). nProbe 6.3.x has been successfully tested against all the available implementations including Vermont, SiLK, nfdump/IPFIX (Cesnet). nProbe […]

Remote nsec TimeStamps using PF_RING and cPacket Devices

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PF_RING supports nsec timestamps from some modern NICs, such as those based on the Intel 82580 (e.g. Silicom PE2G4i80). But NIC timestamps require installing and running the application on the machine where the adapter is installed. Furthermore, by the time the traffic gets from the wire to the the NIC, its temporal behavior might have […]

nProbe IPFIX Interoperability Tests

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Over the past month quite a lot of effort has been put on the IPFIX side of nProbe. Recently, nProbe has been successfully verified by Juniper as an IPFIX (in addition to v9) collector for flows generated by Juniper MX routers, and Cisco Catalyst 4948E switches. In order to further guarantee users that nProbe respects the […]