Month Archives: August 2011

PF_RING

Building a 10 Gbit Traffic Generator using PF_RING and Ostinato

Whoever has developed network applications, soon or later had to buy or rent a traffic generator. Years ago I have purchased my 1 Gbit IXIA 400T on ebay for 2500$, and I wanted to buy a 10 Gbit traffic generator when I started to develop DNA. Unfortunately I could not afford the price of those useful yet costly devices, and I have spent over 10K $ for a 10 Gbit FPGA-based NIC (manufactured by one of the leading companies, guess who, that on my PC can’t now keep up with …
ntop

Released ntop 4.1

Over the week end we released ntop 4.1. We decided to create a smaller version with respect to the previous 4.0.3 in order to remove some legacy code that caused trouble in the past. This release lacks some of the 4.0.3 features but it can benefit in terms of stability and efficiency. The next release will re-incorporate some of the features we cut on 4.1 as we’re currently redesigning them. The idea is to make ntop faster and more modern than past versions. In 4.1 for instance we have removed …