ntopng Deep Dive: Interview with Ivan Pepelnjak
Last month Ivan Pepelnjak interviewed me on Software Gone Wild about ntop and ntopng. The main topic of the interview were: How it all started and why did Luca decide to start the ntop (and PF_RING) project? What is ntopng (next-generation ntop) and why did they rewrite the product? What are nprobe and nbox? The distributed architecture of ntopng, including probes, data sources, collectors, and the central analyzing engine; Combining ntop and elastic search; Why it makes sense to convert all data into JSON format? What are the problems of …