2.4 Stable:
New Supported Protocols and Services
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Showmax.com
Musical.ly
RapidVideo
VidTO streaming service
Apache JServ Protocol
Facebook Messenger
FacebookZero protocol
Improvements
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Improved YouTube support
Improved Netflix support
Updated Google Hangout detection
Updated Twitter address range
Updated Viber ports, subnet and domain
Updated AmazonVideo detection
Updated list of FaceBook sites
Initial Skype in/out support
Improved Tor detection
Improved hyperscan support and category definition
Custom categories loading, extended ndpiReader (-c <file>) for loading name-based categories
Fixes
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Fixes for Instagram flows classified as Facebook
Fixed Spotify detection
Fixed minimum packet payload length for SSDP
Fixed length check in MSN, x-steam-sid, Tor certificate name
Increase client's maximum payload length for SSH
Fixed end-of-line bounds handling
Fixed substring matching
Fix for handling IP address based custom categories
Repaired wrong timestamp calculation
Fixed memory leak
Optimized memory usage
Other/Changes
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New API calls:
ndpi_set_detection_preferences()
ndpi_load_hostname_category()
ndpi_enable_loaded_categories()
ndpi_fill_protocol_category()
ndpi_process_extra_packet()
Skype CallIn/CallOut are now set as Skype.SkypeCallOut Skype.SkypeCallIn
Added support for SMTPS on port 587
Changed RTP from VoIP to Media category
Added site unavailable category
Added custom categories CUSTOM_CATEGORY_MINING, CUSTOM_CATEGORY_MALWARE, CUSTOM_CATEGORY_ADVERTISEMENT, CUSTOM_CATEGORY_BANNED_SITE
Implemented hash-based categories
Converted some not popular protocols to NDPI_PROTOCOL_GENERIC with category detection
* Memory-management, stability and speed have been fundamentally improved
* We have kept an eye on security and hardened the code to prevent privileges escalation and XSS
* Alerts have been extended to include support for
. Re-arming to avoid raising trains of identical alerts in short periods of time
. Alert propagation to the infrastructure monitoring software Nagios
. CIDR-based triggers to monitor the behavior of whole networks
. The detection of suspicious probing attempts
* Netfilter support has been added together with optional packet dropping features
* Routing visibility is now possible through RIPE RIS
* Availability of fine-grained historical data drill-down features, including top talkers, top applications, and interactions between hosts (more details here)
* Integrations with other software
. LDAP authentication support
. alerts forwarding/withdrawal to Nagios
. nBox integration to request full packet pcaps of monitored flows
. Data export to Apache Kafka
* We have extended and improved traffic monitoring
. Visibility of TCP sessions throughput estimations and state breakdown (e.g., connections established, connections reset, etc.)
. Goodput monitoring
. Trends detection
. Highlight of low-goodput flows and hosts
. Visibility of hosts top-visited sites
* Built-in support is now included for
. GRE detunnelling
. per-VLAN historical statistics
. ICMP and ICMPv6 dissection
* We have extended the set of supported OSes to include: Ubuntu 16, Debian 7, EdgeOS
* There is also an optional support for hosts categorization via service flashstart.it
OpenDPI it includes ntop extensions. We have tried to push them into the OpenDPI
source tree but nobody answered emails so we have decided to create our own
source tree.
