nDPI

nDPI

Configuring nDPI for Custom Protocol Detection

The first release of nDPI was basically a refresh of the OpenDPI library on which nDPI is built. Over the past few months we have made many changes including: Port to various platforms including Linux, MacOSX, Windows and FreeBSD. Enhancement of the demo pcapReader application both in terms of speed/features and encapsulations supported (for instance you can now analyse GTP-tunneled traffic). Ability to compile nDPI for the Linux kernel so that you can use it for developing efficient kernel-based modules. Various speed enhancements so that nDPI is now faster than …
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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 packet content and see what’s inside. P2P protocols have been designed from day one with the ability to circumvent network policies in order to reach their peers, and they are good example of places where …