IPv6?  Hum... wonder if your version of tcpdump knows IPv6?  Wonder too if
the folks who added v6 support (for which we're quite grateful) tested this
combo.

-----Burton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 5:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Ntop] reading 'suspicious' and 'other' packets
>
>
> Inline...
>
> 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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