Re: ntopng + nProbe and softflowd

Matthias Brumm <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Feb 2019 18:39:45 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ntop.general
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Hi!

Thanks for the help. I think I will go after ntopng on the PFsense, 
which is giving me pretty much everything I want, but is reporting 
significant less traffic. But that could be a problem of PFsense.

Matthias

Am 07.02.19 um 18:36 schrieb Simone Mainardi:
> Everything seems OK.
>
> You only have to keep in mind that when working with softflowd:
> - flows are delayed and the traffic will look bursty as it is reported periodically
> - you can't perform deep packet inspection as neither nProbe nor ntopng have access to the physical packets. This means that traffic detection will be less accurate.
>
>
>> On 7 Feb 2019, at 18:33, Matthias Brumm <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> The configuration is quite minimalistic:
>>
>> ntopng:
>>
>> -G=/var/run/ntopng.pid
>> -i="tcp://192.168.224.10:5556"
>> -m="10.123.123.0/24,192.168.224.0/24"
>> --community
>>
>> nprobe:
>>
>> -G=/var/run/nprobe.pid
>> -i=none
>> -n=none
>> -3=6363
>> --zmq="tcp://*:5556"
>>
>> For example I want to see the bandwith used by Netflix or IPTV or something like that.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> Am 07.02.19 um 17:30 schrieb Simone Mainardi:
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>> Please, show the nProbe and ntopng configurations used. Reported behavior can be normal as softflowd flow reports are periodic (eg. every minute) so it's normal if you see spiky traffic.
>>>
>>>> On 7 Feb 2019, at 09:28, Matthias Brumm <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> At the moment I am trying to get the above setup running. softflowd is an a PFsense, nProbe on a Raspberry and ntopng on a Debian 9 VM. I do not get sufficiant data (only peaks of 20 to 200 Mbit/s and no stream of traffic).
>>>>
>>>> A ntopng on the PFsense is not working properly so I would like to try this way.
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing some options to calibrate the information? I left pretty much all of it alone.
>>>>
>>>> Matthias
>>>>
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