New release of FastNetMon Community: 1.2.1 Edinburgh

[Pavel Odintsov]

Hello Community!

I'm very happy to announce the new release of FastNetMon Community which includes lots of improvements:

• Added configuration options to control how often we export traffic to InfluxDB: influxdb_push_period
• Added configuration option to control how often we export traffic to Graphite: graphite_push_period = 1
• Added GoBGP 2.17 as part of our binary package
• Added experimental logic for Netflow v9 Lite
• Add support for Discord notifications via script contributed by amit17
• Deprecated and removed DPI logic as we focus only on L3 and L4 protocols
• Deprecated CentOS 6 for new versions, last support which supports it will be 1.2.0
• Deprecated Debian 8 for new versions, last support which supports it will be 1.2.0
• Added support for Debian 11 and Ubuntu 22.04
• Deprecated PF_RING plugin for new versions. We switched to AF_PACKET which is completely open source and works way better
• Switched fastnetmon_client to use sort by mbits by default for consistency between editions
• Deprecated Netmap support for all new Linux releases. It may be enabled manually on FreeBSD which has native support for it
• Improved code style and reformatted code with clang-format
• Replaced unsafe call of printw by format-less addstr
• Added logic to build bindings files for capnp during build process. Addresses issue with inability to build on platforms with different version of capnp installed
• Switched to C++ 17 by default to use latest development in language
• Upgrade log4cpp to 1.1.3 to address C++ 17 compatibility
• Added official Docker image powered by GitHub's Docker registry
• Performance optimisations for sFlow logic
• Implemented logic to parse IPv4 samples for sFlow plugin. Some agents such as hsflowd use this kind of encoding
• Created our security policy
• Added logic to search Protobuf gRPC compiler plugin using find_program
• Moved NO_DEFAULT_PATH to variable and added configuration option to control it. It's very useful for upstream builds
• Disabled RPATH alterations when DO_NOT_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES_FOR_BUILD is not set
• Extended LimitNOFILE to 65535 as we may have pretty large number of active attack notification
• Removing bundled Netmap header files as they cause issues with compatibility when Netmap driver has different version.
• Upgrade {fmt} to 8.0.0 to address issue with build on Debian bullseye
• Updated Fedora spec to prepare upstreaming

To install 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.

Have a great weekend!

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Kind regards,

Pavel Odintsov

CTO, FastNetMon LTD

fastnetmon.com