Re: Ntopng Edge and VLANs - limitations?

Hi,

For the VLAN limitations - having the captive portal would actually be nice.

My understanding is that we need the captive portal - so that when an
unrecognised device connects, the user can login with a username/password,
and we can assign that traffic to the correct user, right?

Without that - they would automatically just go to the "Not assigned" user
- or we'd need to make sure each device was manually added beforehand via
it's MAC address.

We use VLANs to separate out different types of traffic in our network - so
it would be good to have that, and still allow people to register devices
via Ntopng Edge.

Also - are there any differences in the monitoring/analytics features of
Ntopng vs Ntopng edge? Or put another way, is there any advantage to having
traffic go in-line via Ntopng Edge, and then also mirror that traffic to
Ntopng for analysis?

Regards,
Victor

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 10:32 PM Simone Mainardi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 1 Aug 2018, at 10:44, Victor Hooi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ntopng Edge looks really awesome!
>
> I'm reading through the documentation at
> https://www.ntop.org/guides/nedge/.
>
> Our plan is to use Ntopng Edge in bridge mode.
>
> We have a pfSense router, and we use VLANs to segment up our LAN. The
> router is configured to give different DHCP addresses range for each VLAN.
>
>
> Ok, so you don't have to worry about overlapping IP addresses on different
> VLANs that are not handled by nEdge as described in the guide.
>
> However, the docs mention that neither captive portal or DNS portal will
> work. Is there a specific reason for this limitation?
>
>
> Currently this is not supported for simplicity. Those features involve
> redirects and that can become cumbersome with VLANs. If you have special
> requirements, please tell us a use casa and we will consider it for
> implementation.
>
>
> Also, what other configuration is necessary for ntopng edge to work in a
> VLAN network?
>
>
> Assuming you are on a VLAN trunk, that is written on the readme (
> https://www.ntop.org/guides/nedge/bridging.html?highlight=vlan). If you
> have VLAN-interfaces on the host, there's nothing special to do. You will
> see them appearing in the nEdge UI.
>
>
> And are there other limitations as well, if we use VLANs?
>
> Thanks,
> Victor
>
> PS: If I notice any typos in the documentation - is there some way I can
> submit PRs or fixes?
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