On November 7th we will be organising the ntop meetup during the Sharkfest EU 2017 that will take place in Portugal. You can find all details here. This year we will be focusing on cybersecurity, IoT and user traffic monitoring, as well on Wireshark. In fact during our talk at Sharkfest we won’t have enough time […]
20 Years of ntop and Beyond
This month it’s 20 years that I have started the ntop project. Initially it was a hobby project, willing to understand what was really flowing on a network after having spent 5 years playing with OSI that was clearly a dead end (whoever used FTAM to download a file and compared it with FTP/NFS or […]
Network Monitoring Deep Dive: Interview with Scott Schweitzer
In early August, Scott Schweitzer interviewed me about network monitoring and packet capture. The conversation has been very broad, and I have covered various topics ranging from packet capture, network traffic analysis, deep packet inspection, IoT (Internet of Things) and cybersecurity. You can hear my view on this market, and what we’re doing at ntopng […]
How to Monitor and Troubleshoot an Unfamiliar Network
At ntop we use wireshark to dissect traffic and to learn how to make our tools better. We’re not typical packet-oriented users however, as we want to see traffic as a whole and not packet-by-packet. This has been the motivation for contributing to wireshark for extending it towards a more monitoring-oriented tool. Above you can […]
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 lua script and extcap plugin. Available via an extcap interface, the plugin sends Wireshark the […]
Monitoring IoT and Fog Computing: Challenges and Solutions
Since last year we are designing a solution for monitoring IoT and Fog computing devices. This is becoming a hot argument since they are more and more used to create large Internet attacks and also because our privacy can be affected by this new computing trend. While we do not have a complete solution ready, we […]
Introducing nScrub: Powerful yet Affordable DDoS Mitigation
ntop has always tried to make the Internet a better place by developing many open-source network monitoring tools, and releasing all the software at no cost to non-profit and education. A few years ago, Qurium/VirtualRoad, a swedish foundation offering secure hosting to independent online news outlets and human rights organisations, contacted us. The reason was that […]
What Is a Microburst and How to Detect It?
It’s not uncommon to see network administrator struggling tracking down packet drop on network equipments at interface level, while having a low average link utilisation. At the end it often turns out to be due to a phenomenon (well) known as microburst. While forwarding data between network links, network equipments absorb spikes with buffers, when […]
Lessons learnt at #SharkFest15
Last week we have made a couple of presentations at SharkFest 2015, introducing to the Wireshark community what ntopng is about. The most interesting part has been the feedback of those who attended the talks who commented on “how to integrate ntopng with Wireshark”. My personal conclusion is that the best way of doing this, is […]
Do you want to work for ntop?
As ntop software is increasing in popularity, we need help for supporting our users and working at new developments. Therefore we are looking for someone to join our development time, help us, and assist the user community. Job Description We are looking for a candidate located in Italy or in a similar time zone […]