Thanks for the reply.
The router is doing proxy arp this might cause the confusion right?
--no-mac would remedy this? Of course i realise no info about the network 
access layer is being collected then, but i dont mind, i just wish info
about the ip's and the amount of traffic they're sending and what kind of 
traffic.
Bye,

Mipam.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:

> Sounds like mac address confusion.  Read man ntop and docs/FAQ on --no-mac
> switch.
> 
> -----Burton
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> > Mipam
> > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:36 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Ntop] weird display results
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using ntop 3.0 on freebsd.
> > I am starting it like ntop -i xl0 -n -w 192.168.2.103:3000 -W 0 -L
> > --set-pcap-nonblocking
> >
> > 192.168.2.103 is configured on xl1 (so ntop is listening on xl1 on port
> > 3000) and is sniffing on xl0.
> > xl0 is connected to a switch port which monitors the port on which the
> > router is connected, so all traffic that goes through the router
> > is echo'd
> > to the port xl0 is listening on.
> >
> > Now When i visit with my browser the ntop page and go to All Protocols
> > and then to Traffic i see a list of IP's.
> > The first ip sents and receive's the most traffic.
> > In my case i see 172.31.208.33 on top as the host which is
> > generating/receiving most traffic, about 49.3% off all traffic.
> > when i click in this IP i get another screen with Info about 172.31.208.33
> > However, the first line in the table says: 172.31.21.250
> > (unicast-multihomed). However, this is the IP of the router.....
> > What is going on? I though i would see information about 172.31.208.33
> > But is information now displayed from 172.31.21.250?
> > How does ntop show its info i am very much confused.
> > Bye,
> >
> > Mipam.
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