ntop User’s Guide

Ntop user s GuideNetwork Usage Monitor for Unix and Windows SystemsVersion 1998-2003 Luca Deri user s Guide 1998-2003 - Luca Deri IntroductionEveryday I have to monitor the traffic flowing across the network backbone. In order tocontrol the network activities I run several network monitor tools. Due to this monitoringactivity, many people accused me be the cause of the frequent network slowdowns. Since Ihad no way to proof that this wasn t the case, I decided to create an application portable on(virtually) every Unix and Windows system, that allowed me to control the network activityhence to find out who was the real net assassin. This is why ntop had is an application for Unix and Windows systems that allows people to monitor thenetwork activity. Similar to the popular top program, it shows the network activity. This isimplemented capturing and analyzing the network traffic that flows on the specifiednetwork interface. ntop relies on libpcap for packet capture, a public-domain portablecapture following sections describe how to compile and take advantage Deri, November user s Guide 1998-2003 - Luca Deri Compiling and Installing ntopntop is can be downloaded from and several other mirrors ( ) in both source and binary (either applicationbinary or binary package) format.

ntop User’s Guide Network Usage Monitor for Unix and Windows Systems Version 2.3 © 1998-2003 Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org>

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