Just FYI: Ntop 3.0, running on FreeBSD 5.3. Would like to move to 3.1, but don't have the time at the moment.
As of 9:05 this morning - [ntop uptime: 31 days 16:34:32] Monitoring about 400 machines, talking over a T1. Nothing special about this box: Dmesg says: CPU: Intel Pentium III (551.25-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x683 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV, PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1041121280 (992 MB) It might not be a sufficient box for monitoring 2000+ machines, but for what I've got it works very well. The segment I'm monitoring is not isolated, but the ntop box is sharing a hub with the firewall, so I'm seeing not just the Internet traffic but also the broadcast traffic for the segment as well. I haven't tuned the OS either. It Just Runs. Oh, yes - I did install ntop from ports (3.0_1). I see that the port for 3.1 has come out, so I'll try that when I have the time. Kurt Burton said... > Shane - did you try the FreeBSD patch I sent? It's working > for Stanley on > 4.9/4.10... (fixes the hang by reverting to pcap_dispatch() when using > --set-pcap-nonblocking). > > -----Burton > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of > shane mullins > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 8:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Ntop] NTop > > Hey Shawn, > > I have had many problems on FreeBSD. I have tried 4.9, > 4.10 and 5.x. > It would run ok and 4.9, but would stop after a period of time. > Couldn't get ntop to run at all on 4.10 and 5.x. FreeBSD has > documented > issues with ntop. We do have one 4.9 production box, but I > would recommend > to someone save themselves some pain and run Linux. I run > ntop 3.1 on RH > 7.3, it has been great and monitors a busy network. > > > Shane > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shawn Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 9:00 AM > Subject: RE: [Ntop] NTop > > > > Hi Shane, > > > > Can you elobrate on you reasons for not running ntop on > BSD. I've been > using > > Ntop 3.0 on FreeBSD 4.1/5.3 and haven't had any problems. > > > > shawn > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of > > Shane Mullins > > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 4:10 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Ntop] NTop > > > > If I was gonna suggest an OS for ntop, it would have to be a Linux > box. > > Stay away from a BSD box for ntop, BSD is a good OS, but > not for ntop. > > > > Shane > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Antonio Mitarotondo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 5:19 AM > > Subject: [Ntop] NTop > > > > > > > Hello all. > > > We need to deploy a very stable NTop installation. We can't afford > any > > > application segfault in a prolonged period of time while > monitoring > about > > > 2000+ nodes. > > > > > > Does exist a NTop/O.S. combination which is provenly > better than the > > > others? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > --Tony _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
