richbhanover wrote:It's certainly true that ntop would give you a ton of interesting info about what's happening on your network - who's sending traffic to whom, how much they're sending, who's hogging your WAN link, etc.
My glib answer is to go for it. The Archer C5 has a pretty capable CPU, it has plenty of RAM, and the amount of traffic (at your home?) will likely be pretty moderate. (Besides - what else does your router have to do except make you happy? :-)
Yes, it would be helpful to have it on the router. It would be a great way to get info on rogue apps on my Android devices who communicate with the outside, for instance. The statistics are also quite thorough.
What I'm a bit concerned about is that I'm intending to set up QoS, and probably also OpenVPN or StrongSwan. Together with ntop, this might be too much on a 50/10 link. Has anyone got any thoughts on this?
Also, if I *am* going to get ntop going on the router, it might not be too much extra work to just make a package for OpenWRT, so that others can easily use it also. I assume there is info on the wiki on how to do this. Frankly, I was a little surprised that there isn't already a package available since it seems it could obviously be useful, and assumed that was because it might be too heavy or have too many dependencies. Would there be any interest in getting a package for OpenWRT for anyone else, or would few/nobody be able to use it?
I do agree that the router is there to make me happy It's just that there is obviously a limit as to how much it can reasonably do, and it is hard to know how much of a load ntop would place on the router based on the load it places on my desktop machines.
Thoughts/advice/input?