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On 30 September 2004 17:42, Ford,M,Mat,XGH5 FORDM5 R () wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Burton M. Strauss III
>> Sent: 30 September 2004 17:22
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: [Ntop] reading 'suspicious' and 'other' packets
>> 
>> Nothing obvious.  I checked the code and the truncation of packets is
>> suspended if you have the suspicious dump on.  Still it sounds like a
>> corrupted buffer.  Maybe some more info on the ntop version, how
>> you're running it, platform, etc.
> 
> ntop version: 3.0.053 MT (SSL)
> command: -a /usr/home/ntop/logs/http-log -d -L -i bge0 -O
> /usr/home/ntop/logs -u ntop -p /usr/home/ntop/protocols.list
> -w 0 -W 3001 -P /usr/home/ntop
> platform: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9
> 
> FWIW I tried this with just the 'Other' packet logging on
> (i.e. no logging of 'Suspicious' packets), but no change.

I could add to this that I am monitoring an IPv6 network - maybe it is a
problem related to the use of IPv6?

Mat

> 
> Mat
> 
>> 
>> -----Burton
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:58 AM
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Subject: [Ntop] reading 'suspicious' and 'other' packets
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Burton,
>>> 
>>> I didn't see your reply to my message until just now when I was
>>> browsing the archives - I guess it didn't get distributed to me as
>>> my subscription to the list hadn't been processed. Anyway...
>>> 
>>> I tried shutting down ntop using the Admin interface, but tcpdump
>>> still reports the same error. Any other ideas?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Mat
>>> 
>>> ---------------------
>>> 
>>> It could be that the last buffer hasn't been written to disk or
>>> isn't initialized to zeros and tcpdump is trying to read that
>>> garbage. 
>>> 
>>> Causing a graceful shutdown of ntop will close the files. That
>>> should work... 
>>> 
>>> -----Burton
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ntop-bounces at unipi.it [mailto:ntop-bounces at unipi.it]On
>>>> Behalf Of matthew.ford at bt.com Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004
>>>> 5:00 AM 
>>>> To: ntop at Unipi.IT
>>>> Subject: [Ntop] reading 'suspicious' and 'other' packets
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm trying to read the ntop-suspicious-pkts.dev[if].pcap and
>>>> ntop-other-pkts.[if].pcap files using
>>>> 
>>>>    tcpdump -r [filename]
>>>> 
>>>> which is reporting 'tcpdump: pcap_loop: truncated dump file'.
>>>> 
>>>> I've tried opening these files in ethereal as well, and that
>>>> chokes with: 
>>>> 
>>>>    The capture file appears to be damaged or corrupt.
>>>> (pcap: File has 203949056-byte packet, bigger than maximum of
>>>> 65535) 
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone got any ideas/seen this before? Do I need to kill ntop
>>>> before these files will be readable? 
>>>> 
>>>> Mat
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