Good luck - it almost certainly won't work as they don't have the requisite (post 3.1) patch applied. I've tried to hook up with the maintainers before and not even gotten the courtesy of a reply, so I don't bother.
-----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shane mullins Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ntop] ntop unstable on FreeBSD 4.x 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ntop mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
