I see. Thanks.
I know that the probe needs to see the traffic, i was looking for something
that does it passively (sniffing), and have not yet found one that runs on
linux...

On 7/27/07, Gary Gatten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  nTop is a traffic monitor – not a device monitor.  It does a great job of
> looking at traffic flows between hosts, but no, you can't get interface
> utilization from a specific interface from a specific device.
>
>
>
> If your devices don't support SNMP and / or port mirroring there's not
> much you can do.  Depending on your exact environment and what you're trying
> to accomplish, nTop or anything won't be much good either.  A probe/monitor
> needs to see the traffic somehow – sniffing, netflow, RMON tables via SNMP,
> etc.
>
>
>
> MRTG will get interface stats and runs on *nix (Perl) and web GUI, but
> again, your devices must support SNMP.
>
>
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
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>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of
> *Noam Dev
> *Sent:* Friday, July 27, 2007 1:22 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?
>
>
>
> Hrm... Ntop actually looks closer to what i need than the rest. I have
> some limitations (not all hardware supports anything other than "just
> working") that force me to be 100% passive, which is why i liked ntop. Also,
> i am running under linux (prtg is windows). Is it impossible to configure
> ntop to look at interfaces for statistics rather than hosts?
>
> On 7/26/07, *Gary Gatten* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> PRTG also does netflow and "sniffing" – so it may also answer the who and
> what questions.
>
>
>
> G
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf
> Of *Pete Sepulveda
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:58 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: [Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?
>
>
>
> I would use PRTG and setup SNMP on the switches.  You can monitor the
> bandwidth on each interface of the switch regardless of the MAC address.
>
>
>
> http://www.paessler.com/prtg
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of
> *Noam Dev
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:56 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?
>
>
>
> The counters that I'm looking to see are mainly to monitor switches and
> the like. I'm dealing with some hardware that modifies MAC addresses (and
> set their own) but keep the original IP addresses. So, in order to see how
> much bandwidth each section sends/receives, i need to only look at MACs...
> (This is a question that i want to answer : how much bandwidth goes thorugh
> each link)
>
> On 7/26/07, *Gary Gatten* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Describe "monitor"?  Unless you're in a really old or unique environment,
> TCP/IP is your layer 3 / 4 protocol so it's highly relevant.  Give me an
> example of what data you want or what problem you're trying to resolve and
> I'll see if I can help.
>
>
>
> Gary
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf
> Of *Noam Dev
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:18 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Ntop] MAC Address based summaries?
>
>
>
> Hello
>
> I would like to deploy ntop in a certain environment in which i want to
> monitor mainly switches and hubs. This means that for my purposes, IP
> addresses are of no importance, while mac addresses are the one i want to
> monitor. I have not been able to configure ntop to ignore IP traffic when
> summarizing hosts, and to use just physical addresses.
>
> Is it possible to configure ntop to do this or am i looking at the wrong
> solution for my needs? If the latter, any ideas for a more appropriate
> solution?
>
> Thanks!
>
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