Martin, > On 26 Mar 2018, at 17:11, Martin Drašar <dra...@ics.muni.cz> wrote: > > Hi, > > moving on with my scenario, I have decided to just prepare a bunch of > network interfaces before starting ntop and do not use virtual > interfaces at all. > > This worked well, but after some time I hit this error: > > Too many interfaces (54): discarded XXXXXX > Hint: reset redis (redis-cli flushall) and then start ntopng again > > I know that there is a preset limit in the source for 48 interfaces and > I could change it, but the thing is, I am not using that many > interfaces. I just tested some name changes and ntop seems to be keeping > the links between old names and ids and any new interface I add, its id > gets incremented.
Yes, this is normal and is the expected behavior. ntopng must uniquely identify and remember interfaces it has seen, even across restarts. Silently re-using ids would cause data from different interfaces to be mixed unpredictably. > Even though I flushed the redis database and even > deleted the contents of /var/tmp/ntopng. > > How should I convince ntop to start with clean slate? to start clean: - stop ntopng - redis cli flushall - rm -rf /var/tmp/ntopng - start ntopng Simone > > Thanks, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > Ntop@listgateway.unipi.it > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list Ntop@listgateway.unipi.it http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
