No and Maybe.

 

Let me explain.

 

 

The no: ntop doesn’t ‘control’ anything.  It just looks at the traffic.

 

 

 

The maybe:  It depends on where your ntop is positioned.  Let me draw a
little picture

 

Computer(VPN)------Router---<a>--Router(VPN)--<b>---switch------server

 

If your ntop is looking at traffic between the time it leaves the users’ VPN
connection and when it is unencrypted by your VPN router – i.e. point <a>,
then all you will see is the encrypted traffic.  And you won’t be able to
tell what’s in it.

 

If your ntop is looking at traffic after it’s unencrypted by your VPN router
– i.e. point <b>, then it’s normal traffic and ntop will work fine, just as
if there were no VPN involved.

 

 

-----Burton

 

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Javier Martínez
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 5:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Ntop] How to control vpn access and regards

 

Hí, i am new in the ntop mailing list. Regards for all of you. 
Well i have a problem. I have installed in centos5 ntop 3.3 running with
pptpd tunnellings and shorewall. My question is this. There is people that
connect my network form the vpn. Is possible for ntop to control the
connections that i am supporting from the vpn tunnellings. I want to know
the traffic and so on.

Regards

-- 



Javier Martínez
Technical Manager 

 

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