I've posted on this before.... It's an experimental stub - just the option itself - where Luca hopes post 2.1 to allow ntop to run without having to have root access, albeit in a somewhat degraded mode.
i.e. Non-promiscuous means you would only see a small amount of the traffic - that which is addressed to you and that which is broadcast. But, in some situations, such as a firewall/router it would be sufficient. -----Burton ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Javid Abdul-AJAVID1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:42:08 -0500 >whats " promiscuous mode " , how does it effect the security >thanks in advance > >-----Original Message----- >From: Burton M. Strauss III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:38 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [Ntop] Option -s not working > > >There is no -s option... or more precisely, it's not what you think. > >Check the CURRENT man page, not an old one you have lying about > > -s | --no-promiscuous > Use this flag for disabling interface promiscuous mode (i.e. the >ability to cap- > ture ethernet frames regardless whether they are directed to the >local ethernet > card or to the ethernet broadcast address). Note that even if you >use this flag, > the interface could well be in promiscuous mode as other >applications can have > enabled this functionality. > >-----Burton > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Inaki >Sanchez >Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:56 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Ntop] Option -s not working > > > Hi all, > > I am using ntop 2.0.99RC2, when I start it with the option "-s >16384" >(without this, ntop fills up all the RAM and half of the swap) to limit >the amount of memory ntop will use, I find that no statistic are >collected, that is, the output of >http://my.server.com:3000/dumpTrafficData.html?language=perl&key=eth0 is >all zeroes. Can anyone explain that? > > Thanks, > > --Inaki. >_______________________________________________ >Ntop mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop > >_______________________________________________ >Ntop mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop >_______________________________________________ >Ntop mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop > __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop
