ntop question

[David Bandel]

On 7/1/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> Can I use ntop to monitor traffic going thru a router which has one nic
> connect to the local LAN with the same Linux box running ntop ? i.e.
> ntop does not point to 127.0.0.1 but some other ip on the LAN ?
>
> I have never used ntop in the above case. ntop uses packet monitoring
> then if my LAN has a switch then can ntop does that monitoring ?

If you have a decent, manageable switch (not consumer-grade crap),
then you can mirror the port you want to monitor to the port the Linux
box is on.


>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vu
>
>
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