Just to be clear - you're monitoring (2) T1's so MAX possible throughput
would be ~ 6Mb/s?  Your machine and nTop / libpcap should not have any
issues at these rates.

I'm not familiar with the "reports" you mention - is that new in 3.3 or
am I missing something?  I typically use All Protocols > Throughput and
select the hosts and data flows therein.  I usually sort by Local hosts,
received only, and current throughput.

Anyway...  I'll do some thinking and see if I can come up with any
useful ideas.

G

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ron Gage
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Ntop] Problem: NTOP missing data - and lots of it

Greetings:

I just installed a fresh copy of NTOP for a customer.  While it has been

entirely helpful in tracking down some excessive bandwidth users in the 
office, we are a bit concerned that some data appears to be missing from

the reports.

Specifically, we are not seeing any large downloads at all.  For 
example, my contact - while NTOP was running - went and downloaded the 
Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 installer (over 100 meg).  This download was

not displayed anywhere on the NTOP report.  I would certainly think that

a 100 meg download would stick out like a sore thumb on at least the IP 
reports.

If it means anything, I am seeing a HUGE disparity between the total 
received and total processed counts on the summary->traffic page.  Huge 
as in over 120000 difference - and NTOP has only been running about 2 
hours today.  Total dropped packets - 504 (from libpcap).  Machine is a 
single P4 2.4 Ghz with 768 meg of ram.  According to uptime, the system 
load is under 0.01.  According to vmstat, no swapping is occurring and 
free memory is about 400 meg.  NTOP version is 3.3.3 as pulled from SVN 
yesterday (3-Oct-2007).  NTOP was built with a simple ./configure.

NTOP is sitting on a monitor port watching the traffic going to the 
customers internet router (cisco 2600 with 2 DS1's).  Switch is a 3com
3300.

NTOP is being started with the following command line: 
/usr/local/bin/ntop -u ntop -w2401 -4 -c -d -o -D domain.local -r 30 
--no-fc --local-subnets 
10.1.0.0/16=office,10.2.0.0/16=ferndale,10.3.0.0/16=rpm

Yeah, I know - tcp/2401 is CVS, trust me - this needs to be here...

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get NTOP to not miss so much 
data?

Ron Gage
Westland, MI


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