Napatech, the world’s leading supplier of network analysis adapters, and ntop, the renowned traffic monitoring software expert, today announced a collaboration focused on accelerating time to market for high-performance network management and security appliances. The first initiative is a 10 Gbps capture-to-disk solution that will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress and RSA, February 24-28. Capture-to-disk […]
Introducing nBox 2.0 (aka how to use/configure ntop apps using a web GUI)
Years ago we decided to create the nBox appliance as turn-key solution for those that were not fans of the command line. Then we decided to rewrite the nBox GUI to make it simpler, more modern, and usable by all ntop users, to configure ntop, nProbe, n2disk, PF_RING and DNA. In essence we have […]
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 time to speak and meet […]
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 […]
PF_RING 5.0 Introduced: DNA 1/10 Gbit and vPF_RING
We’ve just cut the code of PF_RING 5.0. As it contains many changes with respect to the previous version, it deserved a major version number. We refreshed our DNA drivers to 1 Gbit Intel NICs (e1000e and igb families) in addition to the existing 10 Gbit DNA driver. All the DNA drivers source code is […]
Power to see all
Almost a decade ago Dr Ian Graham was in Europe for a series of conferences and I have met him in person along with other people from Politecnico di Torino, that were developing winpcap (one of the key guys of the group, Loris Degioanni, at that time was visiting Endace, thus was not present at […]
ntop at the Nagios World Conference Europe
PRESS RELEASE Bolzano April 13th 2011 ntop at the “Nagios World Conference Europe™” on May 12th at Bolzano/Italy Luca Deri will be among the keynote speakers at the official European edition dedicated to the well-know Open Source monitoring solution After the American edition in Sào Paolo/Brazil, the European counterpart of the Nagios World Conference™ will […]
Say hello to NetFlow-Lite (NFLite)
As you all know, NetFlow has been initially designed for routers (or L3 switches if you wish), contrary to sFlow that instead has been deployed mostly on switches. In this view, people use NetFlow just for monitoring internet traffic, as NetFlow is not supported across the product portfolio due to dedicated ASIC required. NetFlow-lite (first […]
Monitoring and Solving Network Management Challenges
One of the unique nProbe features is its architecture that’s open to extensions. Plixer International is exploiting these nProbe features in their products. If interested you should attend this presentation. 2010 ACUTA Fall Seminar 10/24/2010 – 10/27/2010 Sheraton Premier at Tysons Corner Vienna, VA Presenter: Michael Patterson President/CEO Plixer International 1 Eagle Drive Sanford, ME […]
Released ntop 4.0
After a few years of work, this is to announce the availability of ntop 4.0. Major changes include: Partially rewritten ntop processing engine to address reliability and performance Several bugs and stability issues fixed Added better support for IPFIX and NetFlow v9, as well as ntop PEN (Private Enterprise Number) Added support for Cisco ASA […]