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    ntopng 4.0 is in freshports - could this be updated in pfSense? (2.5.x)

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      Andrew453
      last edited by Andrew453

      You can update it manually by following the instructions here (thanks to Parker Stephens for the post):

      https://parkercs.tech/upgrading-ntopng-on-pfsense-to-latest-version/

      As of the date of writing (25 July 2020), the links I needed (for pfSense on FreeBSD 11.3 amd64) were:

      https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/All/ntopng-4.0.d20200615_1,1.txz
      http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/latest/All/ndpi-3.2.d20200403_1,1.txz

      Caution advised though, as by updating manually you're going off grid slightly (i.e. not sensible for a production firewall for a big corporate!). ntopng occasionally changes the command line parameters necessary to start the service, for example. If that happens in a future ntopng release, then it won't work in pfSense until the pfSense UI/package is updated with the corresponding changes - which is why the updated ntopng packages only tend to get pushed out by the pfSense developers as part of a future pfSense release.

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        Do not ever load packages like that from FreeBSD. The odds that you will end up loading a conflicting dependency are fairly high. It's just asking for trouble.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          2.5.0 already has ntopng 4.0.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

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              trumee
              last edited by

              Can this be back ported to 2.4.5?

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                cburbs @trumee
                last edited by

                @trumee

                Anyone - is it possilbe to run 4.0 on 2.4.5

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                  Andrew453 @cburbs
                  last edited by

                  @cburbs Yes I am running 4.0 on 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 (amd64). But please see the warnings elsewhere on this thread about it being completely unofficial and unsupported.

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                    cburbs @Andrew453
                    last edited by

                    @Andrew453

                    Do you have any links on how to do this upgrade?

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                      cburbs
                      last edited by

                      So I followed the post from above - https://parkercs.tech/upgrading-ntopng-on-pfsense-to-latest-version/

                      But the below is the packages I found after doing some digging and it did work.

                      pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/All/ntopng-4.0.d20200615_1,1.txz

                      pkg add -f https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/All/ndpi-3.2.d20200403_1,1.txz

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                        netnerdy
                        last edited by

                        When I installed it (v20200615 seems to be gone so I had to try v20200710) and try to run ntopng I get:

                        [2.4.5-RELEASE][pfsense]/root: ntopng
/usr/local/lib/libjson-c.so.5: version JSONC_0.14 required by /usr/local/bin/ntopng not defined

                        and I do have libjson-c installed:

                        [2.4.5-RELEASE][pfsense]/root: pkg info json-c
json-c-0.14
Name           : json-c
Version        : 0.14
Installed on   : Tue Jun  2 15:11:23 2020 PDT
Origin         : devel/json-c
Architecture   : FreeBSD:11:amd64
Prefix         : /usr/local
Categories     : devel
Licenses       : MIT

                        Has anyone seen this issue?

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                          tpz @netnerdy
                          last edited by

                          @netnerdy You can go ahead and upgrade json-c

                          root@OPNsense:/usr/local/etc/rc.d # pkg install json-c

                          Worked for me

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                            netnerdy
                            last edited by

                            @tpz which version of json-c do you have installed? Can you post your output of

                            pkg info json-c

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                              tpz @netnerdy
                              last edited by

                              @netnerdy I had 0.14 then upgraded to 0.15:

                              root@OPNsense:/ # pkg info json-c
                              json-c-0.15_1
                              Name : json-c
                              Version : 0.15_1
                              Installed on : Thu Oct 29 22:58:23 2020 CAT
                              Origin : devel/json-c
                              Architecture : FreeBSD:12:amd64
                              Prefix : /usr/local
                              Categories : devel
                              Licenses : MIT
                              Maintainer : sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
                              WWW : https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
                              Comment : JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) implementation in C
                              Options :
                              PIE : on
                              RELRO : on
                              Shared Libs provided:
                              libjson-c.so.5
                              Annotations :
                              FreeBSD_version: 1201000
                              cpe : cpe:2.3:a:json-c_project:json-c:0.15:::::freebsd12:x64:1
                              repo_type : binary
                              repository : OPNsense
                              Flat size : 316KiB
                              Description :
                              This is a port of json-c, an implementation of json in C. Json, JavaScript
                              Object Notation is a lightweight data exchange format and a subset of the
                              JavaScript programming language.

                              WWW: https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki

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                                netnerdy
                                last edited by

                                Thanks! I install json-c from here: https://freebsd.pkgs.org/11/freebsd-amd64/json-c-0.15.txz.html and it worked.

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                                  cburbs
                                  last edited by

                                  Well 4.2 is out but not available for FreeBSD11

                                  ntopng-4.0.d20200710,1.txz

                                  I use this site to see what packages are available -
                                  https://pkgs.org/

                                  and did a search for ntop and clicked on FreeBSD11

                                  https://pkgs.org/search/?q=ntop

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                                    im_not_a_robot @cburbs
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                                    @cburbs I was able to install ntopng 4.2 from www.freshports.org/net/ntopng using ntopng-4.2.d20201102,1.txz in the 'pkg add' statements above.

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