Last week we have attended the DPDK Summit North America 2018 and talked about how to use nDPI over DPDK, a kernel-bypass toolkit similar to PF_RING. For those who have not attended the presentation, they can read the presentation slides. … Continue reading
Promoting Traffic Visibility: from Application Protocols to Traffic Categories in nDPI and ntopng
Often we receive emails asking question like: “how many protocols nDPI supports?”, “how do you position nDPI against commercial DPI toolkit A, B, C?”. Although these questions are reasonable, they do not grasp the significance of DPI. For years commercial … Continue reading
Introducing nDPI 2.4
This is to announce the release of nDPI 2.4 that is an incremental release mainly introducing the concept of categories in addition to new dissectors and bug fixes. In a nutshell in order to limit the number of custom protocols … Continue reading
Released nDPI 2.2.2: 7 New Protocols, Many Improvements
This is to announce a minor nDPI release update that adds a few fixes and introduces support for popular cloud protocols such as Google and Apple push service. Below you can find the complete changelog. Enjoy! Main New Features Initial … Continue reading
Is your Android phone safe? nDPI will tell you
Weeks ago I have added support for GoogleServices detection in nDPI and thus I wanted to test the code with real traffic. For this reason I started to play with a few Android phones in order to test the code … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Using nDPI to Turn Wireshark Into a Traffic Monitoring Tools
Last week at Sharkfest EU we have shown how you can use nDPI and Lua scripting to turn Wireshark into a traffic monitoring tool. We remind you that all the ntop contributions to Wireshark are open source and can be found … Continue reading
How to Enhance Wireshark with DPI, latency measurement and more
This week at Sharkfest US 17, we have presented the ntop contributions to wireshark. In particular: How to use nDPI to complement Wireshark traffic classification How to remote capture on a remote box at 10/401/100 Gbit and stream traffic securely … Continue reading
Say hello to nDPI 2.0 (with wireshark integration)
nDPI 2.0 is a major release that: Consolidates the API, in particular for guessing new protocols or notifying nDPI that for a given flow there are no more packets to dissect. Introduces nDPI support into Wireshark by means of a … Continue reading
Released nDPI 1.8
This is to announce the release of nDPI 1.8. In this version we have updated many protocol dissectors, simplified the API as well started to introduce changes that will be further improved in future versions. As usual we have changed … Continue reading