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Last Friday Oct 26th, at the University of Pisa we have celebrated 20 years of ntop open source code development and hacking culture. It has been a success with over 110 registered people, and 24 people in the morning training session. We decided to celebrate this event where ntop was created, and where most of the team lives. The idea is to periodically repeat this event  in other locations. The core of these meetings is the community, rather than the core team. The main feedback we received is that people …

This is a message for the Italian speaking community willing to attend our 20 years of ntop workshop that will take place in Pisa, Italy, where ntop was born. If there is somebody willing to help us organise a ntop event somewhere else, please contact us as next year we might be able to arrange that too. <Italian> 20 anni fa veniva rilasciata la prima versione di ntop, tool open source per il monitoraggio del traffico di rete tramite interfaccia web. Da quella prima release, dopo 20 anni sono successe …

While tools like github and mailing lists can serve developers and experts, sometimes people look for a quick help. For this reason we have create a new Telegram group called @ntop_community that you can use (even from your desktop and mobile) for asking quick help from the community. If you are a ntopng user you can select the “Help and News” menu entry for jumping to the telegram channel. We invite people to join and help supporting other users, as well send us feedback. Thank you! …

Yesterday our friends at InfluxData organised a meetup at their HQ in San Francisco, CA. For all those who have been unable to attend the event, these are the presentation slides so you can learn more about the transition from RRD to InfluxDB that is happening in ntopng. Please do not forget to provide feedback on the ntop mailing list or on github. Thank you ! …

This is to announce a new PF_RING major release 7.2 that includes: Support for Ubuntu 18 as well the latest Debian and CentOS kernels. Many improvements to the FPGA capture modules and the ZC library (that is now able to reserve head room for zero-copy traffic encapsulation/decapsulation, just to mention one). Full support for Containers and Namespaces. Besides many improvements and bug fixes, this release also introduces PF_RING FT, an highly optimized library that assists flow-processing application with L7 classification and filtering, and nBroker, a framework for hardware-based traffic steering and filtering …

This is to introduce a new nBox stable release 2.6, that includes many security enhancements, a reworked services management system to fully support systemd (available on latest CentOS/Ubuntu releases), and the new NxN user interface to monitor the status of all ntop applications running on distributed appliances in a single place and facilitate centralized management. The NxN manager includes a dashboard where you can add your nBox appliances, and it will automatically show all services running on each appliance, including informations like actual processed traffic and disk utilisation. The dashboard also lets …

This is to announce n2disk 3.0 that is more than a maintenance release, as it: Consolidates pre-existing functionalities Adds extraction security features that pave the way to GDPR support. Adds flow offload support Simplifies storage management to avoid headaches during the n2disk configuration During our last meeting at Sharkfest EU we talked about Hardware Flow Offload. In essence, applications running on top of PF_RING and (supported) FPGA adapters are now able to offload flow processing to the network card that be programmed to: Keep flow state, doing (basic) flow classification in hw. Periodically …