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Announcing nDPI 2.2

Today we are glad to release nDPI stable version 2.2. This minor release present several fixes and adds support for a handful of new protocols. It also features custom application categories to allow users to create personalized mappings between protocols and categories. The full list of changes introduced with this release are: Main New Features Custom protocol categories to allow personalization of protocols-categories mappings DHCP fingerprinting HTTP User Agent discovery New Supported Protocols and Services ICQ (instant messaging client) YouTube Upload LISP SoundCloud Sony PlayStation Nintendo (switch) gaming protocol Improvements …
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You’re Invited to the ntop Users Meeting and (free) Tutorial

Earlier this year we have held a ntop meetup in USA. Now we want to invite you to attend the ntop users meeting that will take place on October 17th (2 PM-5 PM), during the SharkFest Europe 2016 conference. The idea is to meet the ntop community, present our tools, highlight future work items and teach you how to master our tools. The ntop core team will be present at the event, and we would like to meet our users in person as we need to learn what are the things we …
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Join us at the San Francisco Network Visibility Meetup on Jan 19th

After the Flocon 2016 meetup we held this week, next week we’re organising a meetup for our users of the bay area where we will discuss a new arguments including high-speed sensors and network analytics. http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Network-Visibility-Meetup/ For those who have not attended the Flocon meetup (~25 people attended it, for a 30 min presentation followed by a 2h open discussion), the main comments have been: Network monitoring has to be integrated with security tools: people demand small machines able to visualise network traffic metrics as well report potential security violations. Inline …
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You’re invited to the ntop Meetup at Flocon 2016

Topic: ntop Meetup – Affordable High-Speed Sensors Everywhere Abstract:  Come and meet Luca Deri, members of the ntop team, and fellow “ntop stack” users and partners as we talk about making instrumentation of the entire infrastructure possible with sensor prices at cost points not before considered possible!  Luca and his team are also looking for your input and feedback for their 2016 roadmap! When: 5:30-7:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 13th Location:  Flocon 2016 Conference, Coquina Ballroom A Refreshments provided courtesy of Kentik Technologies Meetup Presentation Slides Agenda:1) Luca Deri:  ntop Roadmap/Discussion (30 …
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ntop 2016 Roadmap

2015 has been a year full of activities that allowed us to consolidate our tools and thus provide a better service to the community. In 2016 the plan is the following: 100 Gbit As in 2015 we have added support for 40 Gbit in PF_RING, 2016 will be the year of 100 Gbit. We already support the Accolade and Napatech 100 Gbit NICs in PF_RING, but the plan is to make 100 Gbit commodity, and thus as soon as the new Intel Red Rock Canyon adapters will be available (we expect …
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Released nDPI 1.7

This is to announce the release of nDPI 1.7. In addition to many new/updated dissectors, the main change of this release is the ability to identify subprotocols. For instance a DNS request Facebook is not identified as DNS.Facebook (previously only Facebook). This is a great additions for apps that used nDPI to block protocols and that failed due to lack of subprotocol support. We have also revised the core library code so that plugin initialisation is now stored in the plugin itself, making the library core shorter and more readable. …
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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 of charge and that implements a robust and easy to use web-based traffic monitoring application. Professional edition: an enhanced version of ntopng that includes modern reports and many new features listed below on this article. …
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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 tools (Travis-CI) and automatic regression testing (via Travis) for improving library quality. New dissector for the QUIC protocol. Major enhancements for Skype, and Tor detection. Reduced memory usage per nDPI flow (up to 40% with …
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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 to github. We hope this will foster collaboration on our software. We are aware that there are areas where we can improve the github integration, but as we’re new to this technology, we invite those …
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ntop 2015 Roadmap

Like every year, we have made a short-term plan for the first half 2015. As we are a research-oriented company, we plan to tackle open issues or provide better answer to existing ones. This is our short list of activities we are carrying on: 40 Gbit We are in the process of supporting the new Intel X710 and XL710 network adapters. They are able to operate at 10 and 40 Gbit (1 x 40 Gbit or 4 x 10 Gbit). The PF_RING ZC drivers are under development and on the PF_RING SVN …
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Introducing ntop Video Tutorials

We have been asked many times to create some videos that introduce novice users to our tools and products. Although English is not our mother tongue, we have decided to take this request seriously and start uploading them on the ntop channel. This said we need your help and we hope that you will contribute by sharing your videos with the whole community. …
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ntop at SHARKFEST’14

The ntop core team will be at the SHARKFEST in June, the annual 4-day conference, focused on sharing knowledge, experience and best practices among Wireshark developers and users. Luca Deri will be among the speakers talking about “Monitoring Mobile Network Traffic (3G/LTE)“. Join us June 16th through June 20th at the Dominican University of California in San Rafael, CA! …