That's actually harder - there's no lookup 'table', it's all stored in the
hosts data structure.

Basically, ntop creates a host entry when it sees a new MAC or IP and then
populates it with information as things are discovered and adds counts to it
as packets are received.

-----Burton

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris
Turbeville
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ntop] --local-subnets & --no-mac


>
> I think you're off, because of the processing overhead.
>
> What you're proposing is to make the --no-mac switch more granular, with a
> table of untrustworthy MAC addresses.  That certainly can be done, but I
> worry about the overhead of changing 17 simple if tests into database
lookups.
>
> -----Burton
>
Actually I was thinking more of just preloading some mac-ip-name
translations and the localsubnets.  I don't think tinkering in the main
packet loop should be required.  But I need to look at it further.
-Chris
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