I just started messing with sflow and jflow (netflow?) and I have what seems to 
be a question back to 2005'ish.  How to get ntop to .... multiply / scale the 
packet info received from a sampling device using sflow / jflow / whatever such 
that the displayed data reflects something as close to real world as possible.

I don't want to get into a debate about if sampling is "accurate" and what not. 
 What I do want to solve is:  if ntop only sees 1 of n packets (or flow record 
has 1 of n packets), what does ntop do with it?  Obviously if ntop doesn't 
account for the sampling somehow, ntop reports will be off my apx. R, where R 
is the sampling rate; such as 100, 1000, etc.  This is not good.  But, can ntop 
simply multiply some (all?) values in the *flows by R?

Any thoughts on this would be great.  I know a particular person with initials 
RJ that's been playing with sflow and rrd, perhaps he has some insight?

G






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