After 6 months from the first nedge announcement, as a response to our customers feedback, nEdge now provides brand new features, like the ability to apply policies based on the device type, the RADIUS integration for captive portal users authentication, … Continue reading
Honouring System Default Policies on ntop Packages
Many distributions provide mechanisms to let the system administrator decide if the new installed packages should be enabled and/or started automatically. Previously, the ntop services were always enabled and started automatically after the first package installation, regardless of any system … Continue reading
Welcome to ntopng 3.8 with continuous drill down: packets, flows, activities
We are happy to announce ntopng stable 3.8. The is the core of the next 4.0 release as it integrates new features that will be consolidated in the next release scheduled for spring. The main features include: SQL database-free high-speed … Continue reading
Drill Down Deeper: Using ntopng to Zoom In, Filter Out and Go Straight to the Packets
ntopng has grown significantly over the past years, providing an increasingly-interesting set of features to support network analysts and troubleshooters in their decisions. Among the most relevant features, it is worth mentioning that timeseries inspection pages have been redesigned and … Continue reading
Say hello to nIndex: Personal Big Data System for Network Flows
Being able to store network flows is a very challenging task using generic databases. Networks are becoming faster and faster and, nowadays, flow-based analysis tools should store tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of flows per second, to keep up … Continue reading
Introducing n2disk 3.2: towards 100 Gbit to disk
This is to announce a new n2disk release 3.2. This release, besides addressing a few issues, includes new juicy features: Multithreaded dump and support for multiple volumes. This is useful in a few cases: If you want to record traffic … Continue reading
Introducing PF_RING 7.4: PF_RING FT, Containers and Virtual Functions Support
This is to announce a new PF_RING major release 7.4. This release includes many improvements to the PF_RING FT library, which is now more mature thanks to new API functionalities and features that provide more flexibility. This release also addresses many … Continue reading
Introducing nDPI 2.6: several new dissectors, DPDK and Hyperscan support
This is to announce the release of nDPI 2.6. Several dissectors have been improved and a few new ones have been added, as well we have improved the detection logic (this in case we have to guess the protocol due … Continue reading
Measuring ntopng+nProbe Flow Processing Performance
In this post we try to analyze the performance of nProbe and ntopng for the collection of NetFlow. ntopng and nProbe will be broken down into smaller functional units and such units will be analyzed to understand the maximum performance … Continue reading
ntopng Disk Requirements for Timeseries and Flows
Being able to do a priori estimations of the space that ntopng is going to use in a production environment is fundamental for the provisioning of the storage. In this post we try to estimate the space used by ntopng … Continue reading