Hi thanks a lot for your clarifications. I will look into the options.
Rainer On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Gary Gatten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nTop and all network monitors can only report on the traffic they see. > If you install it on your workstation, you'll only see traffic to and > from your workstation unless you use some other components to ... > "replicate" traffic to/from the other workstations to your workstation. > > If you want to see traffic from both systems in real-time AND without > any wires - that could be tricky. Adding some sort of fixed desktop > system (*nix) running nTop would be best. nTop can also read files as > input, so you could install Ethereal or similar on each system and > configure it to capture only the headers of the packets to save on disk > space requirements and overhead. Then you can feed these all to your > system and process with nTop for reports. > > Bottom line is to see traffic to/from a host, you need a probe somewhere > that can physically see those frames/packets - which means a probe on > each host or a probe(s) on the gateways, routers, firewalls, etc - the > access points to/from your network. > > I've heard of people "hacking" LinkSys routers to make them support > netflow. This might be an option for you. Netflow processes run on the > gateway and count the traffic and send this to the nTop system. Since > it's only counts of the traffic flows is very light weight compared to > full packet captures. > > Gary > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Rainer M Krug > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Ntop] Monitoring wireless network traffic > > > > Hi > > I am new to ntop - so please bear with me if this is a basic question. > > I want to monitor the traffic in my wireless network to see where the > traffic is going to. So I installed ntop on my computer (not the > router or gatewy - simple workstation) but I only see the traffic from > ny computer and not from the other computer in the network (unless it > is connecting to my computer). Is there any way that I can set ntop up > to monitpor the traffic from the other computer as well? Theya are > both laptops, so the setup needs to be flexible and I can not use the > one computer as a gateway. My setup: two laptops and one DG834gt > netgear ADSL router. > > Thanks, > > Rainer > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation > Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Plant Conservation Unit > Department of Botany > University of Cape Town > Rondebosch 7701 > South Africa > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > > > > > <font size="1"> > <div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in > 0in 1.0pt 0in'> > </div> > "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient > and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. > If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that > any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email > and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by > return email and delete this email from your system." > </font> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Plant Conservation Unit Department of Botany University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7701 South Africa _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
