Last week we have made a couple of presentations at SharkFest 2015, introducing to the Wireshark community what ntopng is about. The most interesting part has been the feedback of those who attended the talks who commented on “how to integrate ntopng with Wireshark”. My personal conclusion is that the best way of doing this, is […]
Exploring your traffic using ntopng with ElasticSearch+Kibana
ntopng allows you to export monitoring data do external sources. For low-traffic sites, SQLite and the ntopng historical interface can be a good option. As your traffic increases you are forced to put your data on a database if you care about performance and long-term data persistency. In future ntopng versions we will add support […]
Say hello to ntopng 2.0
After 9 months of development, we are pleased to announce the release of ntopng 2.0. This is a major release as we have reworked many application components and made the application robust and usable by mid/large companies and ISPs. We have created two versions of ntopng: Community edition: this is the standard ntopng that you can use free […]
Introducing nDPI 1.6
This is to announce the availability of nDPI 1.6, a maintenance release that consolidates this open source deep packet inspection library. This is going to be the last version of the 1.x branch, as we plan (see the enhancements we have planned) major changes for the 2.0 release. Changelog: Moved to github, with continuous testing […]
News @ ntop: Github, Mobile-Aware web site, IPv6, Travis
Even though these might look like cosmetic changes, we are committed to create better software to serve our community. In the past couple of weeks: We have migrated the server to a new site that is now IPv4 and IPv6. You can now access our software from IPv6 finally. We have moved nDPI, PF_RING and ntopng […]
Do you want to work for ntop?
As ntop software is increasing in popularity, we need help for supporting our users and working at new developments. Therefore we are looking for someone to join our development time, help us, and assist the user community. Job Description We are looking for a candidate located in Italy or in a similar time zone […]
PF_RING Deep Dive: Interview with Ivan Pepelnjak
In late March, Ivan Pepelnjak interviewed me on Software Gone Wild about ntop and ntopng, and in a second interview about PF_RING. The main topic of the second interview have been: What is the difference between PF_RING and the Linux built-in packet capturing module; How can you process over 10 million packets per second per CPU core? Do you […]
ntopng Deep Dive: Interview with Ivan Pepelnjak
Last month Ivan Pepelnjak interviewed me on Software Gone Wild about ntop and ntopng. The main topic of the interview were: How it all started and why did Luca decide to start the ntop (and PF_RING) project? What is ntopng (next-generation ntop) and why did they rewrite the product? What are nprobe and nbox? The […]
Using ntopng (pre) 2.0 on a Ubiquity EdgeRouter
NOTE: due to limited resources, we have decided to discontinue ntopng on the Ubiquity. Please see this article for more updated information. As the release of ntopng 2.0 is around the corner (we are fixing the last bugs, polishing the GUI and writing some documentation), we want to show how to turn a cheap device […]
Moving towards ntopng 2.0
As you know, our plan is to release ntopng 2.0 later this spring. While we are still coding the last missing features, we have start packaging the tool so that you can start testing it. We have decided to create two versions of ntopng: Community edition: free open-source version, that you can use at no […]