Use mysql with ntop and build a process to add MACs to the tables? Actually, 
you can dump/export netflow data so although its not built for you it shouldn't 
be *too* hard! Maybe someone else has an idea?

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed Jun 10 10:57:47 2009
Subject: Re: [Ntop] MAC addresses will not display when using netflow

Thanks Gary. You are right -- this is due to a limitation in netflow.
Version 5 doesn't have any support for MACs, however version 9
supposedly does. This morning I tried to use nprobe to export a version
9 template with the source and destination MAC address but ntop doesn't
use this, or at least doesn't display it as the host's MAC address.

> ? - Why do you care about MAC's?  I just get them from the switches
> bridging table or arp table when needed.

I'm setting up ntop to provide troubleshooting information for some
"hotspot" style networks that we run. The local IPs of the clients that
connect to the network can very well change from day to day. 

So, we keep track of everything by MAC address -- i.e. we use cacti to
graph signal levels for each MAC connected to the network, etc. I'd like
to do the same thing with traffic -- it would be great if we could keep
a month's worth of traffic archived by MAC address instead of IP. 

If anyone has any recommendations for how ntop could be used for this
purpose please let me know. It looks like I might need two separate
tools for what I want to do.

Thanks!

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