Unclear hardware choices
"Andrew Hilborne" <[email protected]>
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I wish the ntop.org pages were clearer about what is and is not suitable hardware. I want to monitor a fairly small SMB network and I think that I might be able to use something ARM-based, but I cannot find any reliable information regarding capacity or recommendations, beyond an old blog post on the site which discusses compilation for a Beaglebone. The network currently has a 10Mb/0.5Mb internet connection and this might grow to 100Mbps. It is because of bandwidth constraints that we want to monitor it closely: uplink and downlink can become saturated, but packets sizes are unlikely to be small, so overall pps surely isn't a problem for netopng. I'd like to keep history for 30 days. I'd prefer a single appliance (that I perhaps build) with two ethernet interfaces and a suitable SSD, but I can live with a desktop running netopng and an nprobe instance. Both would be licensed, because we need the traffic categorisation. However I would prefer the cheaper ARM-based license, at least for nprobe. I I can use ARM for a single appliance, that would be a bonus. All suggestions for this scenario are most welcome! Andrew Hilborne _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop