Neil,
we are aware of this and we'll provide a fix soon

Regards Luca

On 09/17/2014 05:49 AM, Neil Page wrote:
> ntopng v.1.2.2 (r8210)
>
> I've noticed in situations where a traffic flow is very long - > 12
> hours, and it happens to consume most of the available bandwidth, it
> won't show up in any Historic data unless you can figure out exactly
> when the flow started and stopped.
>
> EXAMPLE:
> A fellow employee notices at about 20:00 last night while working that
> there is a lot of lag between his office workstation and a datacenter
> server (which we have a private circuit connection to). So I use
> ntopng (running as a service, using a second NIC as a sniffer in
> promiscuous mode - connected to a mirror port on a switch). I navigate
> to the web interface of ntopng where I can see live flows. Nothing out
> of the ordinary there - but that's because the lag occurred last
> night; so I open via the Historical interface some saved flows, around
> the 20:00 time frame. I spread out for a 19:30 - 20:30 window -
> nothing significant appears in the list of flows. I widen it to 19:00
> - 21:00 and still nothing interesting appears.
>
> Finally after I load a 16:00 to 04:00 window I can see a replication
> job is responsible. What I would like to be able to do is open a 5
> minute Historical flow dump and see a "snap shot" of that traffic to
> determine who, in that 5-minute window, was the chief consumer of
> bandwidth/packets/bytes. But if the flow lasts for 12+ hours, there's
> no way to reveal that unless you happen to know exactly when the flow
> started and ended.
>
> Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you,
> Neil
>
>
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