Your backup software SHOULD be using a reliable protocol (TCP) and thus handle retries etc. automatically. If not, that's it's problem not ntop.
ntop is passive - it's listening only. As long as ntop's dropped packets are essentially random, the data is usable to show what's happening on the network. -----Burton > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Andrew Davis > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 5:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] NTOP and Backup software on same server > > > I'm a bit limited on available systems, so in the past my BB (bb4.org) > has also been my backup (BakBone's NetVault) server. I've never had an > issue and its worked great as I have three networks and this one system > has an interface on each network. More recently, it is also now running > NTOP. I've read the FAQ and read over the requirements. CPU cycles and > RAM are not a problem for this system. However, in reading through the > FAQ I came across a few instances of "packet discarding". I'm fairly > confident that my backup software has some checksums in place to make > sure that data sent over the wire actually makes it tape. I'm curious, > though, if any NTOP users have seen or would expect to see any issues > caused by running a network-based backup software and NTOP on the same > system? If NTOP is forced to discard packets and/or processing of them > due to high network caused by the backups, I can live with this. > However, I wouldn't want to see NTOP cause a problem and/or discard a > packet this causing my backup software not to see it. > > Any thoughts? > -- > Andrew Davis > North County Computers > http://www.nccomp.com > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Local: 760-525-4689 > Toll Free: 877-735-4689 > > <a href="http://www.nccomp.com";>North County Computers</a> > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
