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    When/Why/Where is the package ntopng

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    • I Offline
      iSousou
      last edited by

      just updated to 2.3 and ntopng is gone … I must downgrade or should I wait ??

      Thankss

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      • jimpJ Offline
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        It will be back ASAP. The port was removed from FreeBSD because the port wouldn't compile with a modern version of one of its dependencies. I'm hearing that might have been cleared up, so it should be on its way back. There are already some threads for this.

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          iSousou
          last edited by

          So it's true that I do not yet see him between the packages. Is there any indication when the package comes back.

          Systems specs:
          Version 2.3-RELEASE (amd64)
          built on Mon Apr 11 18:10:34 CDT 2016
          FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE

          The system is on the latest version.

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            iSousou
            last edited by

            is are any information of an update?

            Thanksss

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              heper
              last edited by

              work has not been started on it OR it hasn't made it back into the public repo's.

              it'll get done when time permits i guess. i'm fairly certain there are/have been more pressing matters the last couple of days/weeks.

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                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                @heper:

                work has not been started on it OR it hasn't made it back into the public repo's.

                it'll get done when time permits i guess. i'm fairly certain there are/have been more pressing matters the last couple of days/weeks.

                https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/issues/297#issuecomment-198017871

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                  Andrew453
                  last edited by

                  I added a comment on that ntopng issue to see if there was any possibility of reinstating the existing version of ntopng as as package, rather than waiting for ntopng 2.3 to come out.

                  The ntopng issue #297 on github is for integrating ntopng with pfSense I think, i.e. enabling firewall rules to leverage ntopng's packet inspection technologies.

                  That's useful, but there's a lot of work in it I suspect.  The dependency issue which was preventing ntopng from compiling under FreeBSD has already been fixed I think.

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                    Kei
                    last edited by

                    Do you guys know if this could take just a couple of days or also many weeks? Thanks.

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                      Andrew453
                      last edited by

                      The thread on github for ntopng is here: https://github.com/ntop/ntopng/issues/297

                      The thing that's holding up the show is the attempt to integrate pfSense and ntopng, ie adding a new feature that pfSense can use the DPI functionality within ntopng

                      Apparently, the pfSense UI for ntopng has already been converted to bootstrap and the build issue has been fixed, which is all that's needed to get the ntopng package back on to pfSense.

                      So, to answer your question, if the plan is to integrate, probably weeks or months.

                      If the plan is just to get the package back on in the form it was on pfSense 2.2.x, hopefully days.

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                        heper
                        last edited by

                        @Andrew453:

                        Apparently, the pfSense UI for ntopng has already been converted to bootstrap and the build issue has been fixed, which is all that's needed to get the ntopng package back on to pfSense.

                        afaik, pfSense will not take on ntopng as a custom port. It needs to go upstream into the freebsd repo's. (with or without the help of renato or other coredevs that have a commit-bit)
                        once it is in the freebsd repo's, it'll automatically be pulled into the pfsense pkg repo's & then a GUI package can be made.

                        so it could be months (or longer) away if ntop doesnt get into the right repo's

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                          Kei
                          last edited by

                          Months or more really?? Bummer….

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                            Andrew453
                            last edited by

                            Ntopng has just been restored to the FreeBSD ports tree,  so hopefully it'll get picked up in the pfSense ports soon.

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                              Pimmetje
                              last edited by

                              +1  ;)

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                                Andrew453
                                last edited by

                                Ntopng is back in the pfSense ports tree. I can also see the pfSense package files for ntopng in the pfSense packages repo.  What still needs to be done to get ntopng back into pfSense please?

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                                  Pimmetje
                                  last edited by

                                  Currently there is no issue in redmine for it. I would guess that that's a better place to track progress but i am not sure. I asked around for it on IRC but that got me nowhere.
                                  https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense-packages/

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                                    Andrew453
                                    last edited by

                                    I've added a "todo" in pfSense packages.  https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6443

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