[ale] SDN in the home paper

[James Sumners]

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 3:27 AM Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> Sorry I was confused.  UniFi is their wireless stuff while EdgeRouter is
> their gateway stuff (with the exception of the Security Gateway).  I
> thought you were asking about APs not a router.
>

UniFi is a SDN product line -- https://unifi-sdn.ui.com/ . It includes
WAPs, switches, gateways, cameras, and even lighting (for whatever reason).
UniFi is the controller software for all of these hardware products that,
um, unifies them and simplifies the management of them. The EdgeMAX line
has the equivalent in the UNMS product.


>
> However, the UniFi SG does have a hackish way to observe the WAN traffic
>
> https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Routing-Switching/Monitor-monthly-WAN-bandwidth/td-p/2391834
>
> That would require you to probably screen scrape it with a cron job to
> keep tabs on it.
>
> The EdgeRouters can do this as they will report interface statistics via
> SNMP.  So you could have something like MRTG running elsewhere
> collecting the data.
>
> The EdgeRouters can also have extra software installed on them so it's
> also possible to do it more directly but with a bit of hacking.
>
> https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeRouter/My-bandwidth-monitoring-solution/td-p/1255655/page/3
>
>
> https://www.firewallhardware.it/en/ntopng-passive-and-active-monitoring-of-network-traffic/
>
>
> The EdgeRouters also support NetFlow so you can use that as a monitor as
> well.
> https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/360008732414-UNMS-v1-NetFlow
> https://www.nathanhunstad.com/blog/2016/09/edgeos-and-netflow/


I appreciate all of this extra information, but I'm not interested in
setting all of that up. I want the ease of use combined with advanced
functionality that UniFi provides. My research is showing me that Ubnt are
the only ones providing this. 1. At a level a home user like myself wants.
2. With completely local management (cloud is _not_ required). 3. At a
decent price point. They just need to get this one bit solved because, as
the article said:

"...a pertinent task in home networks is to manage the bandwidth of
incoming broadband connection. If it is required to control the Internet
usage cap, then there is a need to monitor the bandwidth usage and
interfere when necessary."


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