In the past couple of years, 10 Gbit networks are gradually replacing multi-1 Gbit links. Traffic analysis is also increasingly demanding as “legacy” NetFlow v5 flows are not enough to network administrators who want to know much more of their network than simple packets/bytes accounting. In order to satisfy these needs, we have added in […]
ntop 5.0 Released
After a year, it’s time to release a new stable version of ntop. This version deserves a major number, 5.0, as many things have changed. Beside bug fixes and general improvements, in this release we redesigned the ntop engine, that up to version 4.x was a bit cumbersome. We now have a layer 2 (MAC […]
Using PF_RING DAQ for high-performance 1/10 Gbit Snort-based IDS/IPS
Months ago we have started to design a new PF_RING DAQ module for snort. We decided to do this project with ENEO Tecnologia who has both sponsored the development and helped us to implement all those tiny features that turned PF_RING DAQ from a simple DAQ adapter to a full fledged module. One of the […]