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What is ntop?...
ntop is a network management tool.
Flowing past your computer on the network wire is a wealth of information about your network - whether you're a large Enterprise, Small/Medium Business, Home user or even an ISP. If you have access to the right wire, you can do this for the entire enterprise!
  • º Are you getting the bandwidth you are paying for?
  • º Who is exchanging information with whom?
  • º How (what 'protocols') are they using to do this?
  • º Tell me about machine "x".
  • º Who is accessing my web site?
Don't kid yourself - this isn't secret information - it's right there on the wire under your desk or going out to your ISP. But if you were to just look at it, as a stream of bits, you couldn't make heads or tails of it. Even with a "packet sniffer" type tool, you couldn't answer the questions above.
ntop is the tool that takes that stream of bits, understands it and presents that information to you.


Say you want to know who is exchanging information with whom on your LAN?
  
 Click to the "IP Subnet Traffic Matrix" to find out:
  
 
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homeportalzebrapoohtiggermailsnout
homeportal Router DNS DHCP Server   66.8 KB  
zebra  989.1 KB  
pooh  49.4 KB  
tigger DHCP Client 66.8 KB 989.1 KB 49.4 KB   98.4 KB 17.7 KB
mail  98.4 KB  
snout  17.7 KB  
  
Go ahead - move your mouse over to boxes and look at the bottom of the screen to see the details!
  
Want to find out more? Click on Tigger
(on a real ntop instance, ALL of the host names on the left site would be clickable!)
 
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