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Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Re: Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Post by binkHN »

I’ve been doing something similar at home for years. An OpenBSD box at the egress point exports IPFIX data to nfdump and I designed custom charts for myself using the legacy dygraphs. IPFIX plus nfdump is wonderful as I can quickly use a tcpdump-like interface to very quickly search against data from months ago and the dygraphs charting allows me to easily see traffic patterns with the ability to quickly zoom in.

Re: Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Post by codetrotter »

TillE wrote: post #20
amaccuish wrote: post #2

Fritzboxes have the best non-OpenWRT OS IMHO

They're the only home routers I've ever owned which aren't constantly failing in some way. It's a shame they're only really available in Germany (and I guess Austria).

I’ve seen FritzBoxes in a computer shop in Spain as well. Don’t know how wide-spread they are in Spain however.

Re: Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Post by nasalter »

TillE wrote: post #20
amaccuish wrote: post #2

Fritzboxes have the best non-OpenWRT OS IMHO

They're the only home routers I've ever owned which aren't constantly failing in some way. It's a shame they're only really available in Germany (and I guess Austria).

I'm in the UK and use Zen Internet as my ISP. Zen distribute a FRITZ!Box 7530 as their home router [1].

I was sufficiently pleased by the FRITZ!Box that I bought a 2nd one to extend the wifi in my home - very easy to do with the fritz devices.

[1] https://www.zen.co.uk/broadband/broadband-router

Re: Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Post by senectus1 »

dmacvicar wrote: post #18

Off-topic but interesting to this audience: since the last update, Fritz boxes support Wireguard. https://en.avm.de/news/the-latest-news-from-fritz/2022/wireg...

nice! I wasn't aware of that thanks.

Had to upgrade to a beta FW for my older model but it works a treat!

Re: Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Post by hansel_der »

gsich wrote: post #24
hansel_der wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

openwrt indeed uses the linux kernel

Yes. That does not make Fritzos a fork or continuation of OpenWrt.

true. thou the second part of your comment sounds like you are saying that openwrt and linux have little in common.

Re: Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Post by waste_monk »

TillE wrote: post #20
amaccuish wrote: post #2

Fritzboxes have the best non-OpenWRT OS IMHO

They're the only home routers I've ever owned which aren't constantly failing in some way. It's a shame they're only really available in Germany (and I guess Austria).

Can confirm they are in use down here in Australia. I know someone who just upgraded their 7490 to a 7590 due to compatibility changes with our National Broadband Network (enablement of SOS-ROC).

Re: Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box

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Post by amaccuish »

TillE wrote: post #20
amaccuish wrote: post #2

Fritzboxes have the best non-OpenWRT OS IMHO

They're the only home routers I've ever owned which aren't constantly failing in some way. It's a shame they're only really available in Germany (and I guess Austria).

I brought mine over from the UK for use here in Germany and just upgraded. Sadly it seems their extenders are only available with EU plugs so I'll have to send some back for my parents, they really are that hassle free that it's worth the effort.
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