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      finalcut
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      Great an thank you

      hope squid3-dev become supported by pfsense and more stable

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        It's live now on 2.2. Works fine on my test VM anyhow. Give it a spin.

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          finalcut
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          It does not see my lan nic

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            muswellhillbilly
            last edited by

            Interesting. I installed this on a test machine with two physical NICs and the menu options for NTOPNG appeared under my Diagnostics menu. It showed traffic flowing from my internal NIC without any problem. I then installed it on my production system and can't see the ntopng men item under the Diagnostics menu at all! Both machines are running pfSense 2.1.4. The only real difference between both boxes is that my production system is operating a captive portal and my two internal NICs on the production system are set as VLANs sharing the same physical network card. So my first question is why isn't the Diagnostics menu showing the ntopng items? My second query is whether ntopng will work with a VLAN-tagged NIC bound to a physical NIC? I can get the ntopng page to load (port 3000), but it's monitoring only the outside network card and no other NICs are available as options.

            I appreciate this is an alpha release, so I won't set my hopes too high that this might be resolved soon.

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              finalcut
              last edited by

              The package work great ,,, the problem was from me

              Thanks again

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                JohnnyBeGood
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                In deed this a 800lb Gorilla!
                It works and I love it. Only one thing that does not work is a GeoMap it looks like it needs to be compalied with geolocation but that's not a big deal.

                _NOTE

                Browser reported home map location [Latitude: xx.3581782, Longitude: -xxx.03674879999998]
                In order to visualize maps you must:
                Have a working Internet connection.
                Have compiled ntopng with geolocation and started with it.
                Have active flows between peers with public IP addresses.
                HTML browser geolocation is used to place on map hosts based on unknown locations._

                I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit!

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                  tester_02
                  last edited by

                  My geolocation seems to work.  It shows everything coming from my city and shows the routes to the major feeds.

                  this new ntop is visually a complete rewrite and way over the top of what I expected.

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                    JohnnyBeGood
                    last edited by

                    @tester_02:

                    My geolocation seems to work.  It shows everything coming from my city and shows the routes to the major feeds.

                    this new ntop is visually a complete rewrite and way over the top of what I expected.

                    I'm assuming for geolocation you didn't need to change anything?

                    I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit!

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                      muswellhillbilly
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                      I've now re-installed the updated version (1.1v0.1 to 1.1v0.2) on my test machine to see if the problem was with the update. It seems it is! The latest version of this package fails to update the Diagnostics menu on the 64-bit pfsense system I'm running and also breaks the uninstall process as well. I'm going to try to see if I can do a manual uninstallation of the package and see whether I can get the older version of ntop to work any better.

                      From what I could tell, ntopng looks very good and has huge potential. The package installation needs a bit of tweaking, though.

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        The menu works fine on my 32 and 64-bit installs. I tested install and uninstall and they all worked cleanly. I tried 2.1.4, 2.1.5 (coming soon), and 2.2 and I had no issues here.

                        If the menu failed then the install probably never completed properly. Try it again but watch the messages very carefully when installing.

                        The only difference between the new version of the pkg was a change on startup to allow 2.2 to function since it had a different path for one program.

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                          BeerCan
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                          @jimp:

                          We can't take direct donations anymore. It's not quite enough for a Gold subscription or I'd say just get one of those. But you can pick up some stuff from the pfSense store with that and you'll get some swag out of it on top of us getting a cut. :-)

                          Jimp
                          This is working great for me  . .  thanks.  Because you can't take the bounty, I donated the money to ALS with a thanks to pfSense forum. (I am already a gold membership holder)

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                            yefryf
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                            Recently I've installed ntopng in my pfsense firewalls and It's really a good tool, thank for the package.

                            I am reading and investigation to learn more about this tool and I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade the ntopng's version to 1.2. By the way, when I access to the dashboard it showing the attached message.

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                              Cino
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                              @jimp thanks again for taking the time to create this package…

                              couple of things,

                              1 Should we have to worry about this error in the system log?

                              
                              ntopng: [Prefs.cpp:408] ERROR: Unable to create log C:\Windows\Temp/ntopng.log
                              
                              

                              2 I should read the manaul but there isn't much under the admin menu as far as configuration. I was hoping to re-name the interfaces to laymen names.

                              2.1.4-RELEASE (i386)
                              built on Fri Jun 20 12:59:29 EDT 2014
                              FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16

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                                Mr. Jingles
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                                @jimp:

                                We can't take direct donations anymore. It's not quite enough for a Gold subscription or I'd say just get one of those. But you can pick up some stuff from the pfSense store with that and you'll get some swag out of it on top of us getting a cut. :-)

                                Could I ask, Jim: why can't people donate anymore? I know I did last year, and suddenly it was gone. I bought a Gold to support (and buy you all a beer  ;D ) but I kept on wondering: why did you remove the donations? It is people wanting to show their appreciation, and some money seems better than no money (but then again, this is the stupid economist speaking here: if there is anything we don't understand, it is money  ;D ;D ;D ).

                                6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                                  Guest
                                  last edited by

                                  Eeehm, sorry for the mildly intelligent question, but: on my nano 2.1.4 boxes there is no ntop or ntopng package available in the list… What's wrong here?  :o

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    @yefryf:

                                    I am reading and investigation to learn more about this tool and I would like to know if it is possible to upgrade the ntopng's version to 1.2. By the way, when I access to the dashboard it showing the attached message.

                                    Not until 1.2 shows up in FreeBSD ports. I'm told it's being worked on.

                                    @Cino:

                                    1 Should we have to worry about this error in the system log?

                                    
                                    ntopng: [Prefs.cpp:408] ERROR: Unable to create log C:\Windows\Temp/ntopng.log
                                    
                                    

                                    I don't think it's worth worrying about

                                    @Hollander:

                                    Could I ask, Jim: why can't people donate anymore? I know I did last year, and suddenly it was gone. I bought a Gold to support (and buy you all a beer  ;D ) but I kept on wondering: why did you remove the donations? It is people wanting to show their appreciation, and some money seems better than no money (but then again, this is the stupid economist speaking here: if there is anything we don't understand, it is money  ;D ;D ;D ).

                                    I don't know the nitty gritty details, but since we're not a non-profit organization, taking donations in that way has some weird tax/legal issues. The beancounters said it caused more trouble than it was worth.

                                    @chemlud:

                                    Eeehm, sorry for the mildly intelligent question, but: on my nano 2.1.4 boxes there is no ntop or ntopng package available in the list… What's wrong here?  :o

                                    ntop isn't compatible with NanoBSD installs, only full installs.

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                                      Guest
                                      last edited by

                                      Too bad!!

                                      btw: If I had the choice between paying an invoice (including VAT) and giving a donation, I knew which option I would choose… :-D

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                                        Mr. Jingles
                                        last edited by

                                        @jimp:

                                        @Hollander:

                                        Could I ask, Jim: why can't people donate anymore? I know I did last year, and suddenly it was gone. I bought a Gold to support (and buy you all a beer  ;D ) but I kept on wondering: why did you remove the donations? It is people wanting to show their appreciation, and some money seems better than no money (but then again, this is the stupid economist speaking here: if there is anything we don't understand, it is money  ;D ;D ;D ).

                                        I don't know the nitty gritty details, but since we're not a non-profit organization, taking donations in that way has some weird tax/legal issues. The beancounters said it caused more trouble than it was worth.

                                        Right  :P

                                        Well it so happens I am a post-academic bean counter ( ;D ), and the thing is:
                                        1. I don't know the specifics of US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), theree might be a twist in there, but:
                                        2. (Donation/1+ VAT-percentage) (so: 50/1,06 assuming VAT 6%) should do it, at least under IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards).

                                        Of course, neglecting the 'twist' mentioned before.

                                        But, to my knowledge, there is no country in the world that forbids companies receiving money that can be taxed both VAT and profit tax.

                                        The offset is the paypal fee. Which I believe is 3-5%.

                                        Which I would assume would make it worthwile: 50 dollars from me, minnus the VAT, minus the corporate tax, still leaves nett money even when offset against the paypal fee.

                                        Sincerely,

                                        Sr. Beancounter  ;D

                                        6 and a half billion people know that they are stupid, agressive, lower life forms.

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                                          muswellhillbilly
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi,

                                          For the record, I think I found out what the problem was with my pfSense installation and this package. I did a bit of digging and found that there had been a previous installation of NRPE on this firewall which had somehow or another failed or been aborted, which must have corrupted the config. When I examined the /cf/conf/config.xml file, I discovered that this installation was still showing in the the 'installedpackages' section. The description for NtopNG was below, but the xml for the associated menu items was completely missing. Editing the config.xml, inserting the relevant xml for Ntop, resolved the problem completely.

                                          Thanks for a very useful contribution to the pfSense community!

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                                            scotty562
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                                            Is it possible to have this program display the bandwidth used per time period?

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