Features

Here is a list of some of the unique features nEdge provides:

• Secure DNS to block malicious domains
• Provide fair bandwidth share between LAN devices
• Block/throttle undesired protocols
• Create users to group device together and assign block/bandwidth limit policies
• Protect children from inappropriate content
• Define per-user and per-protocol time/traffic quotas
• Define customized routing policies with failover and load balance
• Assisted monitoring device configuration

Moreover, since nEdge is based on the well known monitoring software ntopng_, a lot more interesting features are available:

• Malware hosts detection by the means of blacklists
• Active discovery and classification of the active devices in the network
• Accurate L7 traffic classification thanks to nDPI
• Many traffic insights, for example per user, country, operating system views
• Per host/device flows view
• Traffic reports and charts of the past traffic
• Alerts system with slack integration

Some of the ntopng features, however, are not available in nEdge:

• No traffic profiles
• No ability to read data from nProbe (e.g. NetFlow/sFlow data)
• No LDAP integration
• No SNMP devices monitoring

.. warning::

Currently, IPv6 traffic is neither handled nor forwarded by nEdge. IPv6 traffic is never forwarded to LAN or WAN devices.

.. _ntopng: https://www.ntop.org/products/traffic-analysis/ntop/