Earlier this morning I read an article that came through my digg rss feed, entitled “Monitor network traffic with ntop“. Basically it went like this .. install ntop (from source) and then type some stuff and you have ntop .. reet! Suffice to say it left me wanting a little more depth. If you want something done right …

I’ve used ntop before in previous jobs, and I have used it on my home network. So today I decided after reading the above linked article, I would setup ntop on my debian box. I will preface this with a short explanation of how I have things setup network wise.

Let’s get ready to nerd it up: