Hi Burton,

On 6/18/07, Burton Strauss III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

There is one other trap here – ntop uses the lower #ed port to figure out
traffic.  This works ok for protocols which use reserved ports, such as 389
for ldap, since the tcp/ip session is from 389 <-> >1024.

Once you get into protocols which use high numbered ports, this will
mis-classify.

I have long wondered why updating protocol.list would not always classify
traffic correctly, finally an explanation.

Do you think it would be simple to change ntop so that it used
protocol.listfor the classification of all traffic regardless of
whether the port is <
1024 or not?

Or if there are some potential implications to that change, might it be
possible to add a switch so that optionally ntop could classify all traffic
based on the contents of protocol.list rather than just traffic with ports <
1024?

Vaughan
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