As announced some months ago, we have resumed the development of n2n, a peer-to-peer VPN we developed some year ago to ease the access to remote ntop installations behind firewalls, that then evolved into a full fledge application. After having … Continue reading →

While tools like github and mailing lists can serve developers and experts, sometimes people look for a quick help. For this reason we have create a new Telegram group called @ntop_community that you can use (even from your desktop and mobile) … Continue reading →

The need to perform on-time and per-second traffic measurements clashes with protocols such as NetFlow where all counters are cumulative with respect to the flow lifetime. So if you have a flow that lasted 2 minutes and moved X bytes, … Continue reading →

One of the main concern of our users is the ability to scale ntopng with a large number of hosts/protocols and hence how to scale time series. As already discussed, RRD has many limitations with the increase of number of … Continue reading →

We discussed many times about the large quantity of work IDSs have to carry on, and the high CPU load they require, this is the case of Suricata due to the thousands of rules that need to be evaluated for … Continue reading →

Last week we have presented two tutorials at the Sharkfest US 2018 edition: sFlow: Theory and practice of a sampling technology [ slides ] Packet monitoring in the days of IoT and Cloud [ slides ] We believe these tutorials are … Continue reading →

Yesterday our friends at InfluxData organised a meetup at their HQ in San Francisco, CA. For all those who have been unable to attend the event, these are the presentation slides so you can learn more about the transition from RRD to … Continue reading →

The network edge, either wired or wireless, is becoming increasingly important as most things now happen there being the place where devices are deployed. Security-wise, central firewalls are too far from the edge, and thus devices can roam freely – … Continue reading →

ntopng is open source, that means you can read its code and modify it according to the GPL license. The current ntopng architecture is based on three layers where the top one is written in Lua and it is used … Continue reading →

Suppose that you are travelling abroad and you need to access some Internet sites that are not available abroad. Or suppose that you want to evade the restrictions of your ISP, of the hotel room where you are currently staying, … Continue reading →