impostor vs nDPI

impostor

spoof OS detection by messing with the tcp stack (by superswan)

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nDPI

Open Source Deep Packet Inspection Software Toolkit (by ntop)

ndpi Dpi deep-packet-inspection traffic-analysis Network Cybersecurity

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impostor		nDPI
	Project
1	Mentions	3
8	Stars	3,600
-	Growth	1.4%
0.0	Activity	9.7
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C	Language	C
The Unlicense	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

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impostor

Posts with mentions or reviews of impostor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

How to change what My device appears as?
1 project | /r/hacking | 3 Mar 2022

nDPI

Posts with mentions or reviews of nDPI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-28.

The catch with the free version of ProtonVPN?
1 project | /r/ProtonVPN | 1 Jan 2023

The free Proton VPN servers use deep package inspection (nDPI) to block BitTorrent traffic which negatively affects their performance. Other than that, they keep no logs which keeps the privacy and security aspects intact.
FOSS Deep Packet Inspection Options
3 projects | /r/privacy | 28 Oct 2021

nDPI for ntopng - https://github.com/ntop/nDPI
Tools to monitor network traffic for local network
1 project | /r/HomeNetworking | 18 Aug 2021

You can try Netify or ntopng / nDPI. I have no experience with them. See also this article.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing impostor and nDPI you can also consider the following projects:

pwru - Packet, where are you? -- eBPF-based Linux kernel networking debugger

nfstream - NFStream: a Flexible Network Data Analysis Framework.

pmacct - pmacct is a small set of multi-purpose passive network monitoring tools [NetFlow IPFIX sFlow libpcap BGP BMP RPKI IGP Streaming Telemetry].

zapret - Обход DPI в linux

GreenTunnel - GreenTunnel is an anti-censorship utility designed to bypass the DPI system that is put in place by various ISPs to block access to certain websites.

securityonion - Security Onion is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes our own interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, and case management. It also includes other tools such as Playbook, osquery, CyberChef, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Suricata, and Zeek.

core - OPNsense GUI, API and systems backend

GoodbyeDPI - GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)

Protozoa - Code for the paper "Poking a Hole in the Wall: Efficient Censorship-Resistant Internet Communications by Parasitizing on WebRTC" [ACM SIGSAC CCS '20]

lldpd - implementation of IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP)

nDPId - Tiny nDPI based deep packet inspection daemons / toolkit.