ONE problem per message.  Meaningful titles.  Seriously, this is the last
one I'm responding to that has more than one question in it.


Read the entries in docs/FAQ.


Understand that both -j | --border-sniffer-mode and database support are
obsolete in the development (2.1.50+) tree and so we don't offer much
support.  But, um, isn't the mySQL parameter -v not -b??


-----Burton


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Miller, Eoin
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:20 PM
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Subject: [Ntop] border sniffer mode question / other issues


i am having trouble understanding the border sniffer mode option and how it
affects NTOP's other flags...

i have setup a hub inbetween our router and our firewall and plugged the
interface that NTOP is monitoring on into this hub.

we are using NAT for all of our hosts so the main host MAC address for
several machines is going to show up to NTOP as the same for www, mx1, ns1,
ns2, ns3 etc.

whenever i turn on NTOP *without* border sniffer mode, it can only see one
of the hosts that is behind our firewall and track it, im guessing it
resolves the first packet it sees in the local subnet that ive defined and
then resolves that IP and only tracks traffic with that host name and that
MAC and it must disreguard all other traffic with the same MAC address. is
this the case? if it is i have a reccomendation that there be an option to
track by IP or MAC if at all possible, this would help people in the same
situation as me, or if this is already built in please point me in the right
direction....

also when i use the -j option i cannot log to a mysql database? am i
*forced* to log to the flat files? i enter the -b localhost:4000 option into
the startup script but whenever i have that along with -j, then the webpage
that displays the config alway shows that the mysql database is inactive or
is this output false?

and how do you disable the purge hosts option when using ntop in border
sniffer mode? or in regular mode for that matter. it seems that no matter
what i do i cannot disable this, its really driving me up a wall, ive used
the -c (sticky hosts) option and its *still* purging hosts on me!

thanks

eoin
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