Say hello to Libzero
Last year we have introduced PF_RING DNA for implementing 0% CPU receive/transmission on commodity 1/10 Gbit network adapters. We considered DNA as a starting point, as it implemented high-speed RX/TX that was enough for most, but not all of you. This is because commodity adapters do not feature advanced packet balancing techniques as they rely [...]
Getting More Information On Your Network Performance
This week ntop will be present at the Open Source System Management Conference 2012, that will take place this Thursday in Bolzano, Italy, organized by our partner and sponsor Würth-Phoenix. We’ll give a speech about how to analyze network performance with our nProbe/ntop applications, as well how to characterize the applications generating [...]
PF_RING DNA RFC 2544 Benchmark
Over the past couple of weeks we have further improved the DNA performance, and thus we have decided to test its performance. In order to do reproducible measurements we decided to adopt the benchmark specified in RFC 2544. You can find the complete test details and results on this document: DNA_ip_forward_RFC2544.
As you can [...]
Benchmarking PF_RING DNA
For years networking companies have used the buzzword zero-copy to qualify those hardware/software solutions that allow applications to play with packets without the need to copy them at all. Zero-copy needs DMA (Direct Memory Access) for operating so that applications do not get a (shallow) copy of packets but they actually get the pointer [...]
Meet ntop @ Cebit 2012
All those visiting Cebit next week, will have the chance to see what we’re doing at ntop for providing better network monitoring services. We will give a presentation at the Open Source Forum next Wedn at 1.45 PM that is organized by the Linux Magazine.
This would be a good [...]
SFProbe: Embedding nProbe on an SFP
In 2004 my friend Alex Tudor of Agilent involved ntop on a very challenging project. The idea was to monitor the network from the exact place where packets were originated. In fact popular network taps and span ports are not the right tools as they are added to an existing network (i.e. the network [...]
Packet Monitoring using ntop and Cisco ON100
From time to time, Cisco builds ntop-friendly products. This is the time of the Cisco ON100 network agent.
This tiny device that can fit on your hand, has been integrated with ntop for the purpose of traffic monitoring as you can read on this technical note Enabling ntop Packet Monitoring with Cisco OnPlus Service.
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Precise Interface Merging Without Hardware Timestamps
In network monitoring it is very common to use taps for duplicating network traffic (RX and TX directions).
Taps are important as they allow network probes to operate passively without interfering with network operations. The two traffic directions (A to B and B to A) are plugged into two network ports of the [...]
Say hello to nDPI (Network DPI)
The equation “port = (application) protocol” no longer holds. DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) is the way to detect known protocols on non-known ports (e.g. http on ports other than 80) and traffic on know port that is not the one we expect (e.g. skype on port 80). On a nutshell, we need to look at [...]
DNA vs netmap
In the past months I have received a few emails about how to position DNA with respect to netmap. To many people they look like two competing solutions, but in reality they are just two solutions to the same problem. Yesterday I had a nice meeting with Luigi Rizzo, the author of netmap.
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