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nTop 3.3
OS :Windows all
Size :3.3 MB
License :GPL
Update date :June 12th, 2007

Download nTop 3.3

ntop is a software very similar to the popular top Unix command and it is a network traffic probe that will show you the network usage. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well.

ntop users can use a a web browser (e.g. netscape) to navigate through ntop (that acts as a web server) traffic information and get a dump of the network status. In the latter case, ntop can be seen as a simple RMON-like agent with an embedded web interface.

The use of:

· a web interface

· limited configuration and administration via the web interface

· reduced CPU and memory usage (they vary according to network size and traffic)

· make ntop easy to use and suitable for monitoring various kind of networks.

Here are some key features of "nTop":

· Sort network traffic according to many protocols

· Show network traffic sorted according to various criteria

· Display traffic statistics

· Store on disk persistent traffic statistics in RRD format

· Identify the indentity (e.g. email address) of computer users

· Passively (i.e. withou sending probe packets) identify the host OS

· Show IP traffic distribution among the various protocols

· Analyse IP traffic and sort it according to the source/destination

· Display IP Traffic Subnet matrix (who's talking to who?)

· Report IP protocol usage sorted by protocol type

· Act as a NetFlow/sFlow collector for flows generated by routers (e.g. Cisco and Juniper) or switches (e.g. Foundry Networks)

· Produce RMON-like network traffic statistics

· VoIP support (SIP, Cisco SCCP and Asterisk IAX)

· NetFlow (including v5 and v9) and IPFIX support

· Network Flows

· Local Traffic Analysis

· Multithread and MP (MultiProcessor) support on both Unix and Win32

· Perl/PHP/Python lightweight API for accessing ntop from remote

· Support of both NetFlow andsFlow as flow collector. ntop can collect simultaneously from multiple probes.

· Traffic statistics are saved into RRD databases for long-run traffic analysis.

· Internet Domain, AS (Autonomous Systems), VLAN (Virtual LAN) Statistics

· Network assets discovery and categorization according to their OS and users

· Protocol decoders for most of known P2P (Peer to Peer) protocols

· Advanced 'per user' HTTP password protection with encrypted passwords

· RRD support for persistently storing per-host traffic information

· Passive remote host fingerprint (Courtesy of ettercap)

· HTTPS (Secure HTTP via OpenSSL)

· Virtual/multiple network interfaces support

· Graphical Charts (via gdchart)

· WAP support

· U3 support and graphical GUI (Win32 only)

Requirements:

· From a few MB (little LAN) to 100 MB for a WAN.

· On a modern PC and large LAN, it is less than 10% of overall CPU load.

Download nTop 3.3
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