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
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