ntop 5.0 Released
After a year, it's time to release a new stable version of ntop. This version deserves a major number, 5.0, as many things have changed. Beside bug fixes and general improvements, in…
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Getting More Information On Your Network Performance
This week ntop will be present at the Open Source System Management Conference 2012, that will take place this Thursday in Bolzano, Italy, organized by our partner and sponsor Würth-Phoenix. We'll give…
SFProbe: Embedding nProbe on an SFP
In 2004 my friend Alex Tudor of Agilent involved ntop on a very challenging project. The idea was to monitor the network from the exact place where packets were originated. In fact…
Packet Monitoring using ntop and Cisco ON100
From time to time, Cisco builds ntop-friendly products. This is the time of the Cisco ON100 network agent. This tiny device that can fit on your hand, has been integrated with ntop…
Unveiling Application Visibility in ntop and nProbe (both in NetFlow v9 and IPFIX)
For years, applications have used static ports so that port 80 means HTTP, and port 25 SMTP. Unfortunately this 1:1 mapping has been relaxed years ago with dynamic ports so that a…
Released ntop 4.1
Over the week end we released ntop 4.1. We decided to create a smaller version with respect to the previous 4.0.3 in order to remove some legacy code that caused trouble in…
Ok, but how much time do I have?
Accelerating packet capture and processing is a constant race. New hardware innovations, modern computing architectures, and improvements in packet capture (e.g. PF_RING) allow applications to reduce the (both CPU and real) time…
ntop in 2011
Most of you know only small pieces of the ntop project. I have decided to prepare a few slides that you can use as tutorial for showing how the various project components…
Monitoring Traffic Using ntop: Cisco Traffic Analyzer
Most network administrators use ntop for monitoring ethernet traffic. ntop can do much more than this and also monitor Fibre Channel and SCSI traffic. Cisco Traffic Analyzer is a software product based…
A safe network for a relaxed life
My friends at Würth-Phoenix (I have to thank them for spreading the word about it) have prepared this presentation. It has not been conceived for professionals, but rather for those wishing to…
Using ntop as a flow collector for nProbe
nProbe is an efficient netflow/IPFIX probe that can also act as a collector dumpling flows on disk or onto a database (MySQL, sqlite and Fastbit). As ntop has not been designed to…
Twelve years of ntop
The Internet is pretty volatile. As new information become available, the old one disappears. Sometimes we have to look back and see what's happened in the past years. Shall you be interested…
