New version of FastNetMon Community 1.2.4 San Francisco

[Pavel Odintsov]

Hello Community!

I'm very happy to introduce the new release of the FastNetMon Community: 1.2.4.

In this release we broke a long standing tradition and named this release after San Francisco to highlight the international nature of our project.

Last week our team did the very first presentation on US soil at industry leading conference M3AAWG.

In the coming weeks you can hear my presentation at DKNOG, Denmark.

In this release we added multiple new features to make FastNetMon even more useful in your network and improved performance and stability.

New features:

• Native Prometheus support
• Option to send all traffic in JSON format to Kafka
• Option to send all traffic in Protobuf format to Kafka

Bugfixes:

• Reworked speed reporting calculation to monotonic time to address crashes during time adjustments

New platforms support:

• Added Debian 12 support

Improvements:

• Migrated to stand alone libbpf 1.0.1 from in kernel version
• Added emojis to README, yay
• Added option for build system to store binary versions of libraries on S3 to reduce build time
• Added option to verify checksums for all dependencies to detect any alteration attempts
• Added absl, zlib, c-ares, re2 as dependencies for gRPC
• Switched gRPC to use cmake based build
• Added help command for fastnetmon_api_client
• Reworked Boost install process to use b2 install instead of building stage in place
• Switched cmake to use system libraries by default for build procedure to offer better developer experience
• Removed dependency on libatomic1 as it's not required on x86_64 platforms
• Added XDP microcode to use with FastNetMon
• Added rdkafka and cppkafka as optional dependencies
• Complete redesign of speed counters for IPv4 prefixes and IPv6 hosts and networks

To install or upgrade: FastNetMon Community we recommend using our automated installation tool: https://fastnetmon.com/install/

In addition to FastNetMon Community we offer FastNetMon Advanced which includes plenty of exclusive features to push your DDoS defense to the next level: https://fastnetmon.com/compare-community-and-advanced/

At any time you can request completely free one month trial for Advanced edition: https://fastnetmon.com/trial/

Will be happy to answer any questions here or off the list.

Thank you!

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Kind regards,

Pavel Odintsov

CTO, FastNetMon LTD

fastnetmon.com