Victor the problem is that when using virtual adapters you in essence use a switch and thus we cannot implement the bump in the wire as the collision domain will prevent it from working, So yes, you need PCIe passthrough
Regards Luca > On 18 Nov 2018, at 20:33, Victor Hooi <victorh...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Does Ntopng edge always need PCI passthrough on network cards? > > I'm thinking of setting up a Proxmox 5.2 system, running ntopng Edge in a KVM > virtual-machine. > > The physical machine has four on-board Ethernet ports, so I was going to pass > through two of these to act inline. > > However, I see that > https://www.ntop.org/guides/nedge/get_started.html#running-into-a-vm > <https://www.ntop.org/guides/nedge/get_started.html#running-into-a-vm> > mentions that you must enable PCI passthrough. > > Is this for performance reasons? Or there's some other reasons for it? > > Thanks, > Victor > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > Ntop@listgateway.unipi.it > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
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