additional thought

I always tend toward showing all the functionality , and let the user
filter what they need , instead of a limited set
because many users wouldn't even know the extra functionality existed

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dan Lose <[email protected]> wrote:

> fine by me .. it is just that the new functionality is
> way ntop is moving ...  see url
>
>
> http://www.ntop.org/nprobe/unveiling-application-visibility-in-ntop-and-nprobe-both-in-netflow-v9-and-ipfix/
>
> maybe better to wait until   ntop 4.1.2 is stable and incorporated into
> package tree
>
> thanks for looking
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Daniel Manrique <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was able to reproduce the behavior you describe. However, it seems to
>> me that this is "by design", and that out of the box ntop is configured
>> to show only the protocols listed in /etc/ntop/protocols.list. It's not
>> meant to be an exhaustive list of protocols but rather, a "filter" to
>> show only those specified there.
>>
>> Documentation for the -p option says:
>>
>> This parameter is used to specify the TCP/UDP protocols that ntop will
>>        monitor.  The  format  is <label>=<protocol list> [,
>> <label>=<protocol
>>        list>], where label is used to  symbolically  identify  the
>>  <protocol
>>        list>. The format of <protocol list> is <protocol>[|<protocol>],
>> where
>>        <protocol> is either a valid protocol specified inside  the
>>  /etc/ser‐
>>        vices file or a numeric port range (e.g. 80, or 6000-6500).
>>
>>        A simple example is
>> --protocols="HTTP=http|www|https|3128,FTP=ftp|ftp-
>>        data", which reduces the protocols displayed  on  the  "IP"  pages
>>  to
>>        three.
>>
>> If you need ntop to monitor *all* protocols, you need to do so
>> explicitly by removing the -p parameter from the startup file, as you
>> have described. However the packager may have considered that this was
>> too much for most people and thus chose to add a limited list of
>> protocols as a starting point.
>>
>> Since this seems to be "by design", I'd be inclined to mark this bug as
>> Invalid. Do let me know if this seems incorrect. I won't touch anything
>> until I hear your opinion on this matter.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904786
>>
>> Title:
>>  service startup script for ntop incorrect
>>
>> Status in “ntop” package in Ubuntu:
>>  Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>>  for the 4.1 version of ntop in precise 12.04
>>
>>  if you comment out the  -p /etc/ntop/protocol.list
>>  ntop will generate the columns dynamically  for the menu option
>>  IP -> Summary -> Traffic  as traffic is seen
>>
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