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by LinuxBender 1285 days ago
For what it's worth there used to be a package in many Linux repositories called "ntop" [1] however it became less popular when they went commercial. There is still a community version but I have no idea how popular it is any more. It was quite popular prior to projects like PiHole. Perhaps the older ntop has fallen out of favor so maybe there won't be any confusion. I have no idea how many distros still have the other ntop.

[1] - https://www.ntop.org/

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although its functionality is different looks like it's a name collision, at some point I may change it if the old one is still being used
The number of public instances appears to be small [1], though it is not really meant to be listening on a public interface. So maybe it's use is fading away.

[1] - https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ntop

Thanks for the link, pretty cool tool. So it seems like the risk of a conflict is pretty low and if it happens then a solution is to use "npx ntop" instead of just "ntop"