Hi Simone,

Thanks for the advice. The --ignore-vlans option seems to help as I do not
see the duplicates anymore.
I do have vlans on my network but it is not a problem for me not to have
this separated in the display.

Now I still get odd alerts about HTTP requests not being answered. I'll
investigate a bit further but it seems VERY similar to the issue Aaron and
Emanuele are discussing in parallel.
And, on top of that, it seems Aaron is also using a Unifi device (not the
same model but I think the OSes are). Could this be a pointer to the root
cause of our issues?

Thanks again.


Le jeu. 21 mai 2020 à 23:18, Simone Mainardi <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> > On 21 May 2020, at 14:55, David van Ginneken <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Starting with ntopng, I have a small issue initially setting it up.
> >
> > I use port mirroring on a switch to replicate all ports to port 5 where
> a dedicated ntopng interface 'listens' (Official package on raspbian 10).
> > On that same switch I have my Internet gateway (Unifi USG3P) connected
> to port 1. This same device also acts as a DHCP/DNS server.
> >
> > When mirroring all ports BUT port 1, I receive alerts about thousands of
> DNS queries not being answered. I did confirm that with a pcap dump.
>
> When you monitor just port 1, apart from the DNS queries unanswered
> alerts, do you get bi-directional traffic if you look at the flows page? Do
> you see the @1?
>

> >
> > So I went and started to mirror port 1 along with others, and the
> missing traffic (DNS replies) started to be collected.
> > The issue is that with that configuration, all flows are listed twice in
> ntop. Internal hosts are showing normally and with "@1" at the end of the
> hostname.
>
> @1 means VLAN=1 so VLAN-tagged packets are received from the mirror port.
> VLAN depend on your switch configuration. If you can disregard VLANs you
> can use option --ignore-vlans
>
> >
> > Is there a way for ntop to discard this duplicated traffic in the
> accounting of ntopng?
>
> I am not sure the traffic is duplicated. It could be that ntopng is
> keeping the two directions of every flow separated due to the VLAN. Let's
> continue the investigation depending on your responses.
>
> Simone
>
> >   It makes sense to me that it is detected as a host's traffic will be
> seen on its own switch port and then in many cases on port 1.
> >
> > Many thanks.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ntop mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ntop mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
>
_______________________________________________
Ntop mailing list
[email protected]
http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop

Reply via email to