Thanks for the replies, guys. I do plan on using sFlow to monitor whole switches, but in some cases I just want to see what's going over a particular interface. sFlow is just a convenience in these cases. I'll probably just resort to mirrored ports.....It'd be a great feature for both sFlow and NetFlow to allow a single Ntop to be a comprehensive network monitor, though....... I'd love to sponsor the work but have neither time nor money to donate - I have a budget of about 50 bucks for this project (bosses don't see the merit, I'm doing it anyway), and my wife is 9 months pregnant!
>From what I've seen the sFlow plugin is not bad. It throws some "unknown format" errors when taking data from my Foundry switches, but still seems to display good data (???). Suggestion? A place to configure a sampling multiplier so you get a better-calibrated guestimate of actual bandwidth usages.... Thanks again, love the work you guys do. Chris -----Original Message----- Organization: Centro di Servizi per la rete di Ateneo - Pisa - Italy From: Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ntop] Multiple sFlow interfaces? Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:33:48 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris, as Burton said as of today we only have one listener for both sFlow and NetFlow. This will definitively needs to be changed in future releases. Also note that sFlow support has been coded a few years ago and as I currently don't have access to sFlow traffic, it is likely that the current implementation is poor. If you have suggestions etc. please let us know. Cheers, Luca On 23 apr 2004, at 19:04, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: > Basically, there is just one listener - for all sflow input. So while > there > could be multiple sources, the data will get comingled into a single > ntop > virtual NIC. For most people, that's what they really want - a > consolidated > network picture. > > To change that to multiple virtual NICs you'll have to hack the code in > sflowPlugin.com. It's certainly doable - contact me off list if you're > interested in sponsoring the work. > > -----Burton > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
