I've always assumed this would be done with a USB ethernet controller as
the second interface.  Of course you wouldn't have great speed, but if
you're deploying an rpi-based probe, you shouldn't expect it to be able to
handle high bandwidth in the first place.

-Joe


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chris
> Your idea is very smart and this is something I had. In mind to do too.
> The reason why I have not done yet is that the device has only 1 Ethernet
> port, whereas I was thinking that two ports are necessary and thus I was
> looking for a better board but similar ones such as the BeagleBoard are
> alike, What do you think about this matter?
>
> Luca
>
> Sent from my iPad (sorry for typos)
>
> On 30/ago/2013, at 07:46, Chris Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I do my raspberry pi stuff on a qemu vm mostly so that's easy enough to
> get you up and running on.  I'll dig out the images and qemu parameters
> needed and get back to you
> >
> > I have a few raspberry pis as well, I'm happy to do some testing for you
> around what their ability is to process data.  My idea was to see if I
> could make a cloud based ntopng platform with rPi based probes - I haven't
> started thinking about customer data separation yet though, I'm just at
> proof of concept stage
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 29 Aug 2013, at 22:27, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Chris
> >> in the past I have compiled myself the nProbe on ARM but I have no
> longer access to such platform. I believe it should be possible to run it.
> If you provide me access to a system where I can compile, I will try to
> compile it once more
> >>
> >> Thanks Luca
> >>
> >> On Aug 29, 2013, at 9:21 PM, Chris Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anyone tried using the rPi as a probe with nprobe and can report
> any success/failure and monitorable bandwidth?
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone have a licensable binary around for arm as the source
> version of nprobe doesn't have the zmq option so far as I can tell, and
> afaik there isn't an arm compiled binary available from Luca?
> >>>
> >>>> From my testing with the source version it compiled perfectly first
> time but of course I can't get any further with ntopng and load testing to
> see if it performs at all well (I honestly don't know with pis as some
> things with hard float support fly and some falter)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Chris
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