Re: Adding interfaces to already running instance of ntopng

Martin
some more questions (in addition to the question why you use DPDK). What
is a dummy interface? What is the encapsulation of this interface? How
do you inject packet into the interface?

Luca

On 03/20/2018 04:05 PM, Martin Drašar wrote:
> Dne 20.3.2018 v 15:45 Luca Deri napsal(a):
>> Martin this is possible with the current engine but it is implemented
>> only for virtual interfaces. Can you please explain the use case?
>> Example add a USB ethernet interface to a running system?
>>
>> Thanks Luca
>
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> thank you for the quick response.
>
> There is a proprietary system running on top of DPDK that I want to
> connect to ntop. Because of DPDK, system interfaces are not visible to
> ntop, but I could manage an addition to the system that would write
> selected data to a dummy interface for ntop processing. Problem is that
> the data selection criteria change in time and for each such selection I
> would like to have a separate dummy interfaces to keep statistics
> separate for each selected data.
>
> So, would it be possible to have let's say one dummy interface that will
> be registered with ntop from the beginning and have the DPDK system
> create virtual interfaces and write to them and then have separate
> statistics for each virtual interface?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
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