Meet ntop on April 28th @ Microsoft Munich

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This year we’ve accepted the invitation from Wuerth-Phoenix to be part of their Roadshows 2017 and talk about network and system monitoring. The first workshop will be in Munich, Germany on April 28th. All ntop users are invited to come and talk about our monitoring tools.   ntop am 28. April bei Microsoft in München Wie […]

ntop Users Meeting 2016 Retrospective

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Earlier this week we have organised a ntop user’s workshop hosted at Sharkfest EU 2016. For those who have not been able to attend this session, below you can find the slides we have used for presentation. Introduction ntopng: Web-based Traffic Analysis nDPI: Open Source Deep Packet Inspection PF_RING: High-Speed Traffic Processing Hands-On Session Product […]

Learn more about ntopng at RIPE72

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This week we will attend the RIPE 72 meeting in Copenhagen, DK. Thanks to Martin Winter (co-founder of NetDEF) we will  speak about ntopng at two events on Thursday, May 26th: At 11AM we will introduce ntopng at the Open Source Working Group. At 3PM in room “Akvariet 2” we will run a two hours […]

Come to see the new ntopng at CeBIT 2015

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As you might have noticed, we are busy working at ntopng. We will soon publish a blog post where we summarise the current activities and what is still missing before the next version of ntopng will be released. However we believe that while communicating through the Internet is a convenient way to reach the ntop […]

BYO10GPR: Build Your Own 10 Gbit Packet Recorder

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Packet recorder appliances are one of the last network components that have insane prices. Years ago this was justified by the fact that in order to capture traffic at high speed it was mandatory to use costly custom packet capture cards and often custom-designed hardware. With the advent of multi-10 Gbit packet capture technologies on […]

Say hello to nDPI (Network DPI)

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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 […]