Introducing n2n 2.8: Modern Crypto and Data Compression

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This is to announce the release of n2n 2.8 stable. This release brings significant new features to n2n’s crypto world and offers some compression opportunities. Overall n2n performance has been greatly enhanced, reduced bandwidth usage thanks to data compression, and as state of the art security with new crypto options. The added support for routing […]

Introducing n2n 2.6 with AES Encryption

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This is to introduce you the latest n2n 2.6 stable release. This is mostly a maintenance release to address the issues of 2.4 that has been the first release since a long time of silence. The main features are AES encryption that features an overall speed bump (12x speed) and security with respect to twofish […]

Use Remote Assistance to Connect to ntopng Instances

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A problem same ntop users how to face with, is the ability to remote access a ntopng instance running behind a firewall. This can be solved using a VPN or other means that often require to deploy an additional network service. Some of our ntop users are familiar with n2n, an open source peer-to-peer VPN […]

Introducing n2n 2.4

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As announced some months ago, we have resumed the development of n2n, a peer-to-peer VPN we developed some year ago to ease the access to remote ntop installations behind firewalls, that then evolved into a full fledge application. After having put on hold the project for some years fur to lack of time and new […]

n2n is back !

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Hi all, it is finally time to restart development activities in n2n whose code is available at https://github.com/ntop/n2n. The advent of the cloud, privacy concerns on the Internet, mobile users now producing a large amount of Internet traffic, require a secure network overlay such as n2n to build upon. Initially designed to solve our connectivity […]

Using n2n with Amazon (AWS) EC2

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Although we currently have no time to further develop n2n (we have put the project on hold until we have time to work at it again), this tool is still widely used. This article (courtesy of Stuart Buckell) shows how to use n2n to enable broadcast and multicast support on Amazon (AWS) EC2, which is required for […]