Products and Licenses

Most of our products (e.g. ntop and PF_RING) are offered in source format under the GPL or LGPL licenses. Some of them that contain IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) (e.g. PF_RING ZC) that we want to share only with selected users, and thus we distribute them only in binary format. For other products for which we provide per-unit support we use a license, although the base product is released also in source format. For binary products we apply various license models according to the product: …

The License Agreement is available at https://www.ntop.org/legal/ …

ntop is interested in providing local support to international customers, by promoting the birth of resellers. Becoming a reseller is very simple: you need to have knowledge of network monitoring, learn the products, and likely translate some documents into the local language. In return we offer you first class support, strong discounts on products and services, local customers redirection to the reseller (i.e. no direct sales from ntop in case there’s a reseller in the country), training. If interested in applying please drop us a mail. …

If your system is unable to connect to the Internet, you can install packages offline as follows: …

By default ntop commercial licenses are bound to a systemId that uniquely identifies a system using host information including the CPU type and MAC address of the management NIC. In case a user changes he hardware platform running the license, the systemId changes and thus the license is invalidated. For each orderId, a user can revoke free-of-charge an existing license once. If the hardware platform change more than once, the end user needs to contact ntop that will decide if the license can be furtehr revoked free-of-charge or if a …