Rob Trout wrote:

>I'll give -g a shot and see how much that affects our data. I like
>seeing the flows to external hosts, will those still be tracked since
>either the source or destination will be a local ?
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With -g all the non-local hosts will be marked as "other" so you hash 
will contain this dummy host + all your local hosts.

>Thank you both Luca and Burton. You're better than a lot of the 'paid
>for' support contracts we have.
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Thank you. I'm doing my best but I simply cannot support all of you as I 
would like as I've very little time.

Cheers, Luca

>-R
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Luca Deri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
>Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:32 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Ntop] Large hash
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>Rob Trout wrote:
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>>I am running it on a border gateway, it's a mirrored external port....
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>>I used the flag to not trust MACs, is there anything else I can do to 
>>limit the hash size?
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>What about -g (and -z if you want to decrease load) ?
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>Cheers, Luca
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>>Robert Trout
>>T-Speed
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>(office) 214.237.3388
>>www.t-speed.com
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Luca Deri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:02 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: [Ntop] Large hash
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>>Rob,
>>a large hash is normal for a large nw. If this is not your case there's
>>something wrong.
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>>Where are you running ntop? On a border gw? Make sure you use the 
>>proper
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>>options.
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>>Regards, Luca
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>>Rob Trout wrote:
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>>>After running for a few days, I get:
>>>
>>>Sep 30 22:45:43 stats ntop[1682]: Extending hash size
>>>[newSize=65536][deviceId=0]
>>>
>>>Which seems like a pretty large hash compared to others I have seen on
>>>the list. We're running ntop 2.1.51 on Mandrake 8.2. It's a p3-900 w/ 
>>>256mb ram. This host is only used for ntop. I'm starting with the 
>>>command line of:
>>>
>>>/usr/local/bin/ntop -P /server/ntop-current/ntop/database -p
>>>/server/ntop-current/ntop/utils/protocol.list -d -u ntop -o -m 
>>>x.x.x.x/x
>>>
>>>Is there a way to limit the hash-size, and if so what would be the
>>>trade-off of doing so? This is monitoring an internet connection that 
>>>averages about 4 mb, but can peak at 9-10mb
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>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
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