Any word on getting NTOP working?

donoreo

My whole reason for using PFSense is to get a report of internet use. I am using it as a transparent proxy and apparently ntop is the package I should use. It has been broken for quite some time according to the bug report.

jimp

Any updates would be on the ticket.

donoreo

There are none. I am trying to get some awareness so that someone might actually work on it.

jimp

…and any updates would be on the ticket. No updates means nobody has been working on it.

donoreo

I know that is what it means. But If get others asking…there might be some movement. It is really the only thing I need and was the whole reason I installed pfSense.

Cino

Create a ticket at http://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense

jimp

Cino - A ticket already exists.

Donoreo - Asking won't speed it along.

NTOP is a mess even when it does work, it's not something I'd really want on a router these days. If you just need per-IP stats, run bandwidthd.

donoreo

@jimp:

Cino - A ticket already exists.

Donoreo - Asking won't speed it along.

NTOP is a mess even when it does work, it's not something I'd really want on a router these days. If you just need per-IP stats, run bandwidthd.

Seruiously? Well, I guess I will be looking for something else. Bandwidthd does not give me what I need: I want a report of what machines on our network are going where and doing what (HTTP, FTP, etc).

Is there anything in pfSense that will give me what I want?

jimp

Exporting netflow (pfflowd, softflowd, etc) to a dedicated collector will do that. You could even run NTOP on another box as a collector if you want and have pfflowd push data to it there.

donoreo

@jimp:

Exporting netflow (pfflowd, softflowd, etc) to a dedicated collector will do that. You could even run NTOP on another box as a collector if you want and have pfflowd push data to it there.

I have never heard of that before, what do I need as a "collector"?

jimp

NTOP can be a collector when run on its own system.

http://www.ntop.org/netflow.html

donoreo

@jimp:

NTOP can be a collector when run on its own system.

http://www.ntop.org/netflow.html

Any tricks? I have tried several collectors and none of them report anything being sent. However netstat on the collector machine shows a connection on the correct port.