Yea, what Chris said. But basically you create a special port in your Cisco 4507 that mirrors all the traffic from the other ports. Called a SPAN port.
Shane On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:52:29 -0800, Lorenzo Fife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, i just installed NTOP on a debian machine (i'm learning Debian) and it > seems GREAT. seems amazingly powerful, and i love it so far. > > however i'm curious about a few things. first, i've got the linux box > running NTOP plugged into a catalyst 4507r switch, and the other hundreds of > ports the switch has are all going to other hosts on the network. how is > NTOP able to acquire information such as traffic and bandwidth of other > hosts, if it's just a host itself? i mean, only the switch has that > information, doesn't it? since only the switch has all traffic going > through it to the outside world. > > so does my NTOP linux machine analyze EVERY packet moving on the network? > how do i know if it's accurate, you know? > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
