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ntop 2.3 User’s Guide
1. Introduction
Everyday I have to monitor the traffic flowing across the network backbone. In order to
control the network activities I run several network monitor tools. Due to this monitoring
activity, many people accused me be the cause of the frequent network slowdowns. Since I
had 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 activity
hence to find out who was the real net assassin. This is why ntop had birth.
ntop is an application for Unix and Windows systems that allows people to monitor the
network activity. Similar to the popular top program, it shows the network activity. This is
implemented capturing and analyzing the network traffic that flows on the specified
network interface. ntop relies on libpcap for packet capture, a public-domain portable
capture library.
The following sections describe how to compile and take advantage ntop.
Happy reading.
Luca Deri, November 2003.
© 1998-2003 - Luca Deri <[email protected]>
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