Hey Burton,
Thanks for the information. I noticed a port on the FreeBSD
website for ntop 3.1. I am going to give that a try and will post my
results for all the BSD nuts.
Shane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Burton Strauss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 9:08 AM
Subject: RE: [Ntop] ntop unstable on FreeBSD 4.x
> Technically, it's not FreeBSD w/ ntop, it's ntop (libpcap) w/ FreeBSD.
:-(
>
> The patch reverts (for FreeBSD only) to using pcap_loop instead of
> pcap_dispatch. The man page explicitly says pcap_dispatch won't work
w/
> setnonblocking and it doesn't (for more than a little while, except on
some
> systems, like mine, where pcap_dispatch + setnonblocking works fine).
>
> Google for "pcap_dispatch site:tcpdump.org" - it makes for some
interesting
> reading if you are into pain, esp.
> http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2003/05/msg00263.html. Software
at
> this level starts to expose some surprising changes between releases
of
> OSes, where based on the version # you wouldn't expect it (FreeBSD 4.4
v 4.5
> v 4.6, as in this
> http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2002/09/msg00033.html. Read this
stuff
> and you'll begin to understand why I get really peeved at libpcap.
libpcap
> does a wonderful job of hiding the nitty gritty details of interfacing
to
> the network across platforms except where it doesn't. It's like
patting a
> Panda Bear - don't EVER forget it's really a wild animal w/ 4" long
claws.
>
> -----Burton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> shane mullins
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 7:48 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Ntop] ntop unstable on FreeBSD 4.x
>
> FreeBSD has issues with ntop. Burton has a patch out to help this.
>
> Shane
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthias Teege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 6:56 AM
> Subject: [Ntop] ntop unstable on FreeBSD 4.x
>
>
> > Moin,
> >
> > I've setup ntop 3.1 on a FreeBSD 4.10 box. I run it with
> > "-d -L --set-pcap-nonblocking --skip-version-check -i dc0,dc1,dc2"
> >
> > Ntop starts an collecting some data but after some minutes I've got
> > errors loke this.
> >
> > Feb 21 12:55:05 bullet ntop[74040]: **ERROR** Reading packets on
> device 0 (dc0): 'read: No child processes'
> > Feb 21 12:55:05 bullet ntop[74040]: THREADMGMT: pcapDispatch
thread
> terminated...
> > Feb 21 12:57:36 bullet ntop[74040]: **ERROR** Reading packets on
> device 2 (dc2): 'read: No child processes'
> > Feb 21 12:57:36 bullet ntop[74040]: THREADMGMT: pcapDispatch
thread
> terminated...
> > Feb 21 13:03:22 bullet ntop[74040]: **ERROR** Reading packets on
> device 1 (dc1): 'read: No child processes'
> > Feb 21 13:03:22 bullet ntop[74040]: THREADMGMT: pcapDispatch
thread
> terminated...
> >
> > What maybe the problem?
> > Matthias
> >
> > --
> > make world not war
> >
> >
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