ntopng is computer software for monitoring network traffic. It is designed to be the successor to ntop (ntopng = ntop Next Generation). There are versions of ntop for virtually every Unix platform, Windows and mac OS X. It can monitor network traffic, and does the following:
- It allows you to sort traffic by many criteria (for example, IP address, port, and protocol)
- It allows you to identify top talkers and listeners
- It provides flow reports
- It stores persistent traffic statistics
- It allows you to geolocate hosts and display reports based on host location
It can do all this and more with a simple web frontend and is not very resource intensive; its CPU/memory footprint is small. The ntopng package has been recently removed from the ...
