Doh,
Thanks for the heads up. I thought they would have applied the
patch. Being a glutton for punishment, I may give it a try and apply
the patch. If/when I do, I will post the results.
Thanks,
Shane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Burton Strauss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: [Ntop] ntop unstable on FreeBSD 4.x
> 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
> > >
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