ntop question

[vu pham]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 07:30 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> 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. I think these switches are not crap ones :) 

Vu