Shaf,
so who's fault? ntop, Linux or your machine?

Cheers, Luca


Shaf Ali wrote:
> That's the honest truth and I can prove it...
> 
> Mind you I have deep concerns on the reaction of ntop if you're kernel is
> packet filtering....
> Which is what my kernel is doing...
> 
> I placed ntop on my production machine several months back which was also
> packet filetering and the results were a lot more serious.... Typically when
> the machine went live and the network packets started flowing - the machine
> rebooted ! SHEESH I rebuilt the kernel stripping everything out except
> iptables of course and again the same problem : REBOOT.
> 
> Finally I removed ntop and we had stability.
> 
> 
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> Shaf Ali [ ContentFusion.com ]
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> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Devon Harding - GTHLA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Shaf Ali'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 4:12 PM
> Subject: RE: [Ntop] A reason for dying
> 
> 
> 
>>So you're saying that when you ran ntop with '-i' it dies?
>>
>>-Devon
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Shaf Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:09 AM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: [Ntop] A reason for dying
>>
>>I have had this problem...
>>And mailed the group...Not to add that I got a very UNHELPFUL and RUDE
>>response... If only the support was as great as ntop....
>>
>>Anyway I realized that I had to use rc1 src but the problem re-occued....
>>
>>Solved by :
>>
>>root gw:/etc/rc.d/init.d> cat network-monitor
>>#!/bin/sh
>>
>>/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntop-mySQLserver.pl &
>>##/usr/local/bin/ntop --mysql-host "ntop:ntop:ntop:localhost" -N -d -i
>>"eth0,eth1,eth2" -u nobody
>>## Multiple interfaces CRASH
>>/usr/local/bin/ntop --mysql-host "ntop:foo:bar:localhost" -d -u nobody
>>
>>Hope this helps you...
>>
>>----===================-----
>>Shaf Ali [ ContentFusion.com ]
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Devon Harding - GTHLA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:09 PM
>>Subject: [Ntop] A reason for dying
>>
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone know what are the MAIN reasons that ntop dies or seg. fault?
>>>Could it be too much traffic/bandwidth?  Not enough memory/processor?
>>
>>Could
>>
>>>OS/Kernel have something to do with it?
>>>
>>>I'd like try a process of elimination to fix this.
>>>
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