Hi Dan,
I apologise for the late reply: coulc you please save the ntop log in a file
and sned it to me so that I can see whether there's something strange when
the dropoff happens? Do you have an idea what's the cause of the problem?
How didi you draw the graphs, using the ntop Perl/PHP
Here's what Ntop shows me after it starts to hog the CPU/drop traffic. I've
noticed that the CPU hogging and the traffic loss do NOT start at the same
time! Perhaps there's two issues here?
I confirmed that the interface does go out of promiscuous mode after an
hour. The odd thing is that it