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Subject: Re: Ntop + SNMP
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> You don't.
>
> If you wish to use SNMP to monitor traffic voumes, etc., you'll need
> to use something like mrtg, cacti or nagios.
>
> ntop doesn't know or care about SNMP, any more than does, say, tcpdump
> or WireShark.
>
> Kurt

Then why does it have support//plugin for SNMP if it wont/cant monitor it to 
ask the obvious ?