First see of your infrastrucure support netflow. It works pretty well and requires far less cpu on the ntop server. If not, check out pf_ring.

From: Riccardo Bortolameotti [mailto:r.bortolameotti@gmai...]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 08:47 AM
To: Ntop@list... <Ntop@list...>
Subject: [Ntop] ntop supports 300-400Mbits

Hello,

I wanna ask a question about ntop, it supports a traffic of 300-400Mbits? Because im starting a project for my University's internship and we decided to use ntop to monitor the traffic of University, and analyze data. Which is the better solutions? (hardware/ ntop configuration, if there is a solution!)





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