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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
Subject: Re: New/Updated L7 netfilter  option - nDPI
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:20:18 +0000
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On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 23:53 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Hi all.  There is an interesting project that was called opendpi 
> (originally by ipoque GmbH) and recently been forked and maintained by 
> the ntop guys under the nDPI label.  It offers a new and currently 
> maintained layer 7 (L7) packet identification library.

That's great news.

I had a play with l7-filter some time ago, which I assume is similar to
nDPI. How do the 2 projects compare?

I have to admit that I only had limited success with l7-filter, although
it no longer appears to be maintained anyway.

Andy