Hello and thank you for your answer,

I will contribute for sure. I have modified and added some features and I
would gladly share them if it can be useful. Github is a best place for
such things.

2016-07-13 10:28 GMT+02:00 Simone Mainardi <[email protected]>:

> Mathieu,
>
> You already asked a similar question some time ago in the same mailing
> list. The behaviors you described are consistent with the present
> implementation. If you would like to handle dynamic IP-MAC associations,
> then please feel free to post a feature request on github and we'll try and
> accomodate it. Alternatively, if you would like to contribute with some
> code, that would be awesome.
>
> Thank you,
> Simone
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Mathieu Fourcroy <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am just wondering how ntopng handle dynamic IP addresses modification.
>> So I test with two computers. I do the following:
>> - Set 192.168.1.1 on computer A
>> > ntopng associate computer A with IP 192.168.1.1
>> - Set 192.168.1.2 on computer A
>> > ntopng associate computer A with IP 192.168.1.2 so that there is now
>> two entries for the same computer
>> - Set 192.168.1.1 on computer B
>> > ntopng do not associate computer B with IP 192.168.1.1. Instead, it
>> keeps thinking that it is computer A and continue monitoring traffic as if
>> it comes from/to computer A.
>>
>> Also when ntopng restore a host it do not check for its MAC address but
>> only for its IP address. So I set 192.168.1.1 on computer A then shutdown
>> ntopng and let it dump the redis data. Then I set 192.168.1.1 on computer B
>> and start ntopng again, it sees computer B with IP 192.168.1.1 and restore
>> the stats from redis wich belongs to computer A.
>>
>> So my question is: is this a desired features ? Is there a plan to modify
>> this behavior (I am actually planing to change it) ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mathieu
>>
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