Alfredo Cardigliano, Author at ntop

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…

n2disk

April 25, 2017

Introducing n2disk 2.8 with Microburst Detection

Together with PF_RING 6.6, today we also released n2disk 2.8. In this release we introduced support for microburst detection in order to spot traffic bursts, which is crucial in identifying potential capacity…

PF_RING

April 25, 2017

PF_RING 6.6 Just Released

After almost one year of development, this is to announce the release of PF_RING 6.6. In this release we have worked on different areas: Introduced nBPF, a software packet-filtering component similar to…

PF_RING

February 16, 2017

Positioning PF_RING ZC vs DPDK

Last week I have met some PF_RING ZC and DPDK users. The idea was to ask questions on PF_RING (for the existing ZC users) and understand (for DPDK users) whether it was…

n2disk

October 11, 2016

Filtering Terabytes of pcaps using nBPF and Wireshark

In a previous post we introduced our new nBPF library that able to convert a BPF filter to hardware rules for offloading traffic filtering to the network card. We did not mention…

PF_RING

October 6, 2016

Introducing nBPF: line-rate hardware packet filtering (yes Wireshark at 100G is possible)

Modern network adapters such as Exablaze, Napatech and Silicom's Intel FM10K, support hardware filters. Unfortunately every company has its own way to set filters, no unified API, and no support of any…

n2disk

June 8, 2016

n2disk 2.6 Just Released

This is to announce the release of n2disk 2.6. In this release we have made many changes to the indexing system adding a new flow-based index that should improve packet retrieval as…

PF_RING

June 8, 2016

PF_RING 6.4 Just Released

This is to announce the release of PF_RING 6.4 that contains various improvements, new network adapters supported in ZC mode (including Intel 100 Gbit), and bug fixes. Developers can access the documentation…

n2disk

May 28, 2016

How to Build a 2×10 Gbit Packet Recorder using n2disk and PF_RING (2016 Update)

Earlier in 2014 we advised how to build a continuous packet recorder using n2disk and PF_RING. Since that time computing architectures have progressed, we have added support for new ethernet controllers, and…

PF_RING

May 14, 2016

Commoditizing 10/25/40/100 Gbit with PF_RING ZC on Intel FM10K

As you know we're working at 100 Gbit for a while, not just in terms of network speed, but also in terms of redesigning existing applications for being more efficient and powerful…

PF_RING

February 10, 2016

Best practices for using Bro IDS with PF_RING ZC. Reliably.

Zero copy technologies such as PF_RING ZC allow applications to read packets in memory without any actor involved, being it the kernel or a memory copy. This is the reason why using…

PF_RING

November 26, 2015

Introducing PF_RING 6.2

This is to announce the release of PF_RING 6.2 that has several improvements with respect to the previous version. As previously accounted, we have extended support of non-Intel devices in PF_RING to…

Author: Alfredo Cardigliano

Introducing nScrub: Powerful yet Affordable DDoS Mitigation

Introducing n2disk 2.8 with Microburst Detection

PF_RING 6.6 Just Released

Positioning PF_RING ZC vs DPDK

Filtering Terabytes of pcaps using nBPF and Wireshark

Introducing nBPF: line-rate hardware packet filtering (yes Wireshark at 100G is possible)

n2disk 2.6 Just Released

PF_RING 6.4 Just Released

How to Build a 2×10 Gbit Packet Recorder using n2disk and PF_RING (2016 Update)

Commoditizing 10/25/40/100 Gbit with PF_RING ZC on Intel FM10K

Best practices for using Bro IDS with PF_RING ZC. Reliably.

Introducing PF_RING 6.2