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 flow data export/historical explorer (e.g. MySQL and ElasticSearch export) - 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: http://www.ntop.org/products/traffic-analysis/ntop/