This may be a stupid question but here goes anyway. :)
We're collecting flows on a Linux box from our Cisco
switches using the flow-tools. We are also forwarding
them to an instance of ntop using flow-fanout. ntop
does an excellent job of breaking things down. One
thing I don't understand though. How does ntop break
down packet sizes in the Traffic Report? When I use
"flow-export" (part of the flow-tools) to dump flow
records into a database the packet size is not part of
the flow information that is exported. flow-export
does give number of packets and total bytes associated
with the flow record. Does ntop just use that
information and devide total bytes by number of
packets (which I don't think would be very accurate)
or is there more to flow records than what flow-export
spits out? I could look at the ntop source and figure
things out but I'm hoping that asking the question
here directly might get a faster answer.

Thanks!

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