RE: [Ntop] re: new release of ntop 2.0 - Dec 27

2001-12-28 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Basically you're right - the code is in report.c, function (line 70)ff... The header is printed ~ line 230, and the body of the report follows. Down around 402 is this code, to dump the protocols being monitored: for(i=0; inumIpProtosToMonitor; i++) { totalIPTraffic

RE: [Ntop] More info on previously reported traffic mis-assignment bug

2002-01-01 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
]On Behalf Of KORN Andras Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ntop] More info on previously reported traffic mis-assignment bug On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:19:12PM -0600, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: Hi, Why bother re-inventing the wheel? [...] regarding Li

RE: [Ntop] switches, traffic and exchange..

2002-01-04 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Re your switch issue... When you say connected to a switch, what do you mean? Think about how a switch operates... A switch receives a packet on an interface. It analyzes the packet (MAC address) and determines which port the destination is on. The packet is copied to that port (and

RE: [Ntop] monitor special ports

2002-01-10 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
As I'm busy researching the network behaviour of such peer-to-peer applications and I think there are two options to make ntop monitor such protocols: * Write a plug-in to handle the protocol. However AFAIK a plug-in cannot access the content of reassembled TCP transmissions, which is needed for

RE: [Ntop] Problems using Netflow in Ntop 2.0

2002-01-10 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Don't turn on netflow? :-) Looks like a common problem - quoting from Cisco's documentation: Cisco IOS Router-Based NetFlow Aggregation Customers can expect a large volume of export data from NetFlow when it is enabled on many interfaces on high-end routers that switch many flows per unit time

RE: [Ntop] Status of fixes on 2.0?

2002-01-13 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
1) Move the code in main.c: /* Patch courtesy of Burton M. Strauss III [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ if(protoSpecs != NULL) { if(protoSpecs[0] != '\0') handleProtocols(protoSpecs); free(protoSpecs); } up before the call to postCommandLineArgumentsInitialization(lastTime); Or pull

[Ntop-dev] To all those having problems of Ntop just aborting (2.0)

2002-01-16 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
That is, those of you who are having NTop shutdown without explanation and you're sure you have enough memory. Some of you are seeing Ntop fail and swear you aren't memory constrained (I'd really ask you to try shutting down un-necessary daemons, at least to show it isn't memory). The failure

RE: [Ntop] Can't run ntop on Windows ME

2002-01-16 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
You will get that if: 1. You don't have enough memory - but that's a very narrow range of available memory where it fails 2. The database directory doesn't exist 3. You don't have access to the database file. Make sure that dnsCache.db exists and that you can read/write to it. -Burton

[Ntop-dev] Summary of problems *I* know about... (PLEASE SKIM, esp. if you can help test things - sorry, it's VERY LONG, about 20KB)

2002-01-16 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
This is a summary of problems with Ntop 2.0 that I am aware of, and have done at least some preliminary investigation of. Disclaimer: This is all what I think I know and have seen from reading code and running Ntop for a short while. If I'm wrong, let me know. Please! For many of them, I've

RE: [Ntop] ntop only on local interfaces?

2002-01-16 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Two ways... one, you can select specific interface(s) to monitor with the -i option two, you can use a bnf filter expression (see the tcpdump man page) -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of lightbit Sent: Wednesday, January 16,

RE: [Ntop] bugs vs. cockpit error

2002-01-17 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Check void initLibpcap(char* rulesFile, int numDevices) {} in initialize.c for the call to pcap_lookupnet()... There is also something that goes on in initDevices(), but I'm not really sure why it does that. I *thought* pcap_lookupnet() would retrieve it all... I'm guessing they just took

RE: [Ntop] Problem running NTOP v 2 and 2 alpha 1 on XP

2002-01-17 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
1. Check the version that comes with Ntop's Windows demo I've used that version on 98SE and 2K, never tried XP. I don't know that it's been tested on XP. You may be in for trouble... Remember that libpcap 0.6.2 predates the XP release... You may have to get the source and

RE: [Ntop] problems with NTOP running as a daemon

2002-01-17 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
This is a really stupid question, or an incredibly astute one... What are the chances you have the old v1.3 off the PowerTools CD installed in one place and the new 2.0 that you've compiled from scratch in another. And that your manual run and the one in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntop are pointing at

RE: [Ntop] Can't run ntop on Windows ME

2002-01-18 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
? Thanks, Jen-Lung - Original Message - From: Burton M. Strauss III [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 7:29 AM Subject: RE: [Ntop] Can't run ntop on Windows ME 1. DOS memory, which is what you're showing, isn't meaningful. However, yes, 128MB should

RE: [Ntop] No graphics

2002-01-18 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(Excerpted from a 07Jan2001 post to ntop and ntop-dev) We don't mind helping people, but you do have to give the rest of the people monitoring this mailing list some basic information. I've given notice that I will not reply to ANY NTop has a bug messages unless you provide some reasonable

RE: [Ntop] No graphics

2002-01-18 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Network Private LAN 30 machines Help me please, Watch the graphic, please. Slds, José Luis - Original Message - From: Burton M. Strauss III [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: RE: [Ntop] No graphics (Excerpted

RE: [Ntop] No graphics

2002-01-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
That *should* be ok... on my system, /usr/share/ntop has the .db files: LsWatch.db addressCache.db dnsCache.db full_protocol.list hostsInfo.db html logger.db ntop.access.log ntop_pw.db plugins protocol.list /usr/share/ntop/html has

RE: [Ntop] No bart chart shown on Statistical throughput page.

2002-01-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Off hand no... If the chart generation fails, you usually get the X graphic from your browser. In addition to what's below, please post the HTML source. Right click in the frame near the missing graphic, select View Source and then cutpaste that file. (Excerpted Slightly updated from a

RE: [Ntop] Default text colour problem

2002-01-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Sure... look at the style.css file in the html directory. (I think it works, but haven't tried it myself. Please be sure and report back to the list your success or failure) -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Atwood

RE: [Ntop] problems with NTOP running as a daemon

2002-01-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Norton Network Administrator WareNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 417 - 2300 x 2360 (888) 927 - 3329 (Fax) WebSite Development, Web Hosting, Connectivity, Colocation aim: deveyn -Original Message- From: Burton M. Strauss III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:44 PM

RE: [Ntop] 408 errors on FreeBSD w/ ntop SSL

2002-01-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
HTTP_REQUEST_TIMEOUT is set in http.c: static int readHTTPheader(char* theRequestedURL, int theRequestedURLLen, char *thePw, int thePwLen) { ... /* select returns immediately */ wait_time.tv_sec = 10; wait_time.tv_usec = 0;

RE: [Ntop] Password problem

2002-01-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
How about the file called ntop_pw.db typically in /usr/share/ntop Delete it and it's recreated automatically on the next run -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rinaldi J. Montessi Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 9:20 PM To:

[Ntop] [PATCH} username and password in popup (was dnsCache.db)

2002-01-26 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
1. You should ALWAYS change default passwords of any administrative tool. Period. 2. You can easily patch Ntop to remove the display. I'll send that to Luca. Look for a --no-admin-password-hint flag 3. At least it now asks for confirmation (you're welcome, btw, :-)) -Burton

RE: [Ntop] Images in ntop

2002-01-27 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Sounds like the images were not copied. Look in .../html/statsicons. Those are not related to gdchart - that's what produces the pie charts, etc. If the install fails, those last few copies may not have been done - often due to a missing man directory - check the list archive for Guillaume's

RE: [Ntop] seg fault?

2002-01-28 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
I'm pretty sure I posted about this problem a couple of days back, haven't had time to dig into it. It's bombing at address.c ~ 850, usually on long (multiple ips) DNS (like www.yahoo.com, etc.) I think the buffer is too small. But I don't have a resolution. You can try running under gdb and

RE: [Ntop] seg fault?

2002-01-29 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
... J -Original Message- From: Burton M. Strauss III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ntop] seg fault? I'm pretty sure I posted about this problem a couple of days back, haven't had time to dig into it. It's bombing

RE: [Ntop] building problem

2002-01-29 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
You've neglected to give us ANY information about your setup. Guess: It looks like you don't have a full/proper install of gdbm or didn't run configure. 1. Make sure you have gdbm installed properly. Ntop looks for two files: test -r $GDBM_ROOT/libgdbm.a test -r $GDBM_ROOT/gdbm.h 2.

RE: [Ntop] modifying ntop stats for an IP ?.

2002-01-29 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Unclear what you mean by modify. If you're talking about the reported data, not that I know of. I guess you could - while Ntop was shutdown - edit the .db file - but you would have to pull out the format from Ntop's code... -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Ntop] building problem

2002-01-30 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:06 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [Ntop] building problem"Burton M. Strauss III" wrote: You've neglected to give us ANY information about your setup.Hey don't get mad man, I supposed the output of make would be enough.. seems not.

RE: [Ntop] problem with ntop and -u bug

2002-01-30 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Doubt it... I suspect the file doesn't exist - check the code, Ntop's processing is to try and open the file. If it can't open it, it treats it as a list of protocol names, for which /root/... is not valid. If it does exist, make sure you have read access to the file (although I'm pretty sure

RE: [Ntop] Newly installed ntop not working...

2002-01-30 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Download and build the latest source. (Check the archives for the history of the -M bug) -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Switenky, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ntop] Newly

RE: [Ntop] building problem

2002-01-31 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
, January 31, 2002 5:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ntop] building problem Burton M. Strauss III wrote: The configure script would have failed with a pretty clear message - scroll up about a page - if you had run it without gdbm installed. Instructions on how to install are in docs/BUILD

RE: [Ntop] Newly installed ntop not working...

2002-01-31 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Chris Picton has the same problem - when I was tracing it before Luca's patch, I found two distinct paths into getHostInfo(), which would come from different devices - I think that's the problem, but haven't had time to dig in to it. -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [Ntop] Interface keaves promiscuous mode

2002-02-01 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(Excerpted Slightly updated from a 07Jan2001 post to ntop and ntop-dev) We don't mind helping people, but you do have to give the rest of the people monitoring this mailing list some basic information. I've given notice that I will not reply to ANY NTop has a bug messages unless you provide

RE: [Ntop] make error on Solaris 7

2002-02-01 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Um... did you follow the direction to run gmake? Now type 'make' or 'gmake' (GNU make) on *BSD and Solaris systems to build ntop 2.0.0. Otherwise, I'm clueless - you will probably need to diff the new Makefile you've created against an older on that worked... BTW: Which version(s) and

RE: [Ntop] Make error for ntop 2.0 on Solaris 8

2002-02-01 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
The instructions printed at the end of configure tell you to run gmake under Solaris... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Dennett Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ntop] Make error for ntop 2.0

RE: [Ntop] Make error for ntop 2.0 on Solaris 8

2002-02-02 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
a way around this by saving the original Makefile.in. Charlie Burton M. Strauss III wrote: The instructions printed at the end of configure tell you to run gmake under Solaris... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Dennett Sent

RE: [Ntop] Funny NTOP behaviour

2002-02-02 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Yes, I've seen it, it's on my known bug list, but doesn't happen often enough to allow me to trace it down. -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Heiko Wundram Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [Ntop] can't find dependencies

2002-02-06 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Title: RE: [Ntop] can't find dependencies I'll give you an answer and a pointer. The answer - links need to be maintained. Would you rather effort went to developing the program or keeping a web page up to date? The pointer:

RE: [Ntop] Ntop and Cisco Switch interaction

2002-02-06 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Have you looked at Border Sniffer Mode. It's new (post 2.0), and from reading the code and a very brief note from Luca, sounds like - maybe - it's sort of in the same area. main.c ~ 445: case 'j': /* In this mode ntop sniffs from an interface on which the traffic has

[Ntop-dev] Plugins compile MAY be fixed - need to verify

2002-02-06 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Gang: It looks like the 06Feb2002 snapshot has fixed (at least for me) the plugins compile problem. From a few diff's it looks like Luca has backed off to automake 1.4 (was 1.4-p5, although I'm running 1.5). And also made a change in configure.in back to what was in the initial 2.0 release.

RE: [Ntop] Interface leaves promiscuous mode

2002-02-06 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
I'm pretty sure it's NOT an Ntop problem. But I'm not sure that's going to help you. The behavior is perfectly understandable. In promiscuous mode, Ntop sees everything. When the card drops back to normal mode, Ntop only sees traffic to/from that one machine. If you manually flip it back

RE: [Ntop] ntop Layout?

2002-02-08 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Because you have an incomplete install, permission problems, etc. Ntop serves pages from .html files if it can find them (/usr/share/ntop/html/index.html, for example) (check http.c around line 1050- the comment is/* Search in the local directory first... */). If it can't find the file

[Ntop-dev] Current build (02-02-12) is a MAJOR improvement

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
For those of you who have been hanging back because of problems, give this one a try! It's fixed most of my issues, including - IP Protos/IP Traffic, all traffic classified as remote (i.e. doesn't show up) - IP Subnet Traffic Matrix doesn't appear - -M (merge interfaces) mode being forced

RE: [Ntop] Full NT Version

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
I've replied privately with some info gleaned from Kagi's web site... anyone with DEFINITIVE answers, feel free to jump in... -Burton usual-disclaimerI am not affiliated with Luca Deri in any way, other than being a vocal user of Ntop who has sent in some patches. My opinions are my own,

RE: [Ntop] New to ntop

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(Excerpted Slightly updated from a 07Jan2001 post to ntop and ntop-dev) We don't mind helping people, but you do have to give the rest of the people monitoring this mailing list some basic information. I've given notice that I will not reply to ANY NTop has a bug messages unless you provide

[Ntop] Feb12 snapshot - Fred's comments

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Fred: Saw your note in the archive, I don't seem to be getting messages directly. sigh... another call to the ISP's helpless line... Anyway... see my BMS/BMS's below... -Burton The warning: Some of the internal changes will cause huge diff's if you compare the code. If you need to do

[Ntop] RE: question using custom services.list with NTOP

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(main.c around line 911) for this: /* Moved from initialize.c (postCommandLineArgumentsInitialization) so that we don't add the defaults if the user has given us at least SOMETHING to monitor Fix courtesy of Burton M. Strauss III [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Ntop] not enough memory

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
256MB should be enough. Maybe... Since you say init.d, I'm guessing it's some flavor of UNIX. But you know, I've been fooled before... (Excerpted Slightly updated from a 07Jan2001 post to ntop and ntop-dev) We don't mind helping people, but you do have to give the rest of the people

RE: [Ntop] troubles compiling ntop

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Ugh... the charts not showing up is a symptom of a failure in gdchart, either it's not found, or there isn't enough memory for it to run, or some other abort - it dies and ntop just continues on... But with 128MB of RAM, you should be ok unless it is a big busy network - you don't say what the

RE: [Ntop] ntopd?

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
The RedHat scripts in the rpm seem to work ok for me. I hacked on 'em for the parameters I wanted to use, but that's normal. If it dies, I guess the best would be a cron, every n-minutes, that checked if ntop was running and restarted it if not. Some of the versions have stability

RE: [Ntop] Ntop segmentation fault

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
It's hard to tell - you don't say which version of ntop you are running, where you got it from, etc.. And, if it's a prebuilt RPM package, what date is the source. There have been problems with the -M flag, although I haven't (yet?) seen any current reports from people using the most current

RE: [Ntop] Measuring problems

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
I sat on this for a couple of days, pondering... 1) I had traffic classification problems, but that went away with the 12Feb2002 snapshot. Everything now looks right to my jaded eye. Up until then, a lot of traffic was being classified as remote and not reported. 2) Token ring... I wonder if

RE: [Ntop] Compile error Redhat 7.2

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
The asm directory (note that case is important) should be in /usr/include/ Did you install the appropriate development libraries, including the linux kernel headers?? [bstrauss@tigger html]$ rpm -q -f /usr/include/asm/sigcontext.h kernel-headers-2.4.9-21 -Burton -Original

RE: [Ntop] can't install ntop

2002-02-14 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
look in the docs/BUILD-NTOP.txt file Don't bother with 1.1... grab the latest source and try that! -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jane Sun Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 8:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [Ntop]

RE: [Ntop] problem with ntop www display

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(Excerpted Slightly updated from a 07Jan2001 post to ntop and ntop-dev) Please give us more information... Specifically: Hardware Type # of processors Amount of memory # network interfaces and types (vendor, bus, etc.) Software NTop version, source and any applied

RE: [Ntop] Ntop should monitor only 1 host

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Yes -m tells ntop what is local, not what to monitor. You need to use the -B option and create a filter. Off the top of my head, something like this: -B src or dst host aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axel

RE: [Ntop] Problem merging traffic on multiple interfaces on v2.0.1

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
1) There was a bug related to -M always being on/off - it's been fixed. 2) There are a number of changes in the hashing tables, etc. Please try a more recent snapshot. -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Domski, Samuel Sent:

RE: [Ntop] FreeBSD 4.5R and LOTS of ntop zombies when using web interface

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
In my 04Feb2002 message about changes to ntop, I mentioned the zombie: 7. Some code that looks like it's work on the BSD zombie problem... grep for usedFork... then again... Have you tried one of the more recent snapshots? Feed back on whether it's fixed would be useful... -Burton

RE: [Ntop] Multiple Interfaces

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Um... Read the man page? You have two choices. One is to run a single instance and use the -M flag Two is to run multiple instances, each monitoring separate nics Make sure you are using a recent snapshot, as there were problems with -M in the 2.0 released version. -Burton -Original

RE: [Ntop] FreeBSD 4.5R make problem

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ntop-current/ntop' gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Any ideas how I can fix this and continue testing ? At 07:26 AM 2/15/2002 -0600, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: In my 04Feb2002 message about changes to ntop, I mentioned the zombie: 7. Some code

RE: [Ntop] FreeBSD 4.5R compile problems

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
-am] Error 2 Any ideas how I can fix this and continue testing ? At 07:26 AM 2/15/2002 -0600, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: In my 04Feb2002 message about changes to ntop, I mentioned the zombie: 7. Some code that looks like it's work on the BSD zombie problem... grep for usedFork... then again

RE: [Ntop] Error compiling NTOP on Win2K

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
The 1st error can be ignored - file doesn't exist, so it can't rm it... Anyway, in ntop after the 2.0 release (you don't tell us which version of the source you are using...), those missing routines were refactored out of pbuf.c into protocols.c, which I don't see in the list of .o files. I'm

RE: [Ntop] Installation

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
What you see is what there is... you can look at http://www.ntop.org and http://snapshot.ntop.org and in the docs/ directory. Writing documentation would be a wonderful way to contribute to the ntop project! -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Ntop] problem for launch ntop

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Two solutions - Igor's: mkdir /usr/.../man/man1/intop will get you past the problem, however the intop.1 file will be in .../man1/intop/intop.1 and won't be found by man. That's pretty minor. You could also try regenerating the files with ./autogen.sh -1 (downloading the new automake isn't

RE: [Ntop] a couple of questions

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Yes it is - and if you read the message traffic, you would have seen the same report. But without the info, I would waste a lot of MY time on irrelevant issues. The key is the traffic mirroring. You need to use a more recent version and use the '--border-sniffer-mode' or '-j' option. This was

RE: [Ntop] problem for launch NTOP

2002-02-15 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Once it fails, it won't install other files you need. Or the gdbm error could be that you forgot to stop the prior instance of ntop. Third possibility, the userid you are running under doesn't have rights to the existing files (I've had that when I manually ran as root, then tried to run a 2nd

RE: [Ntop] Compile error Redhat 7.2

2002-02-17 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
In the version I have (I keep the 2.0 released as a reference), EMSGNUM is: ntop.h: 526 #ifndef EMSGSIZE ntop.h: 527 #define EMSGSIZE97 /* Inappropriate message buffer length */ ntop.h: 528 #endif /* EMSGSIZE */ That's in turn wrapped in an

RE: [Ntop] a couple of questions

2002-02-17 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Replied in-line -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Igor Schein Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ntop] a couple of questions snip / Thanks a lot for the useful tips. Now, I compiled

RE: [Ntop] problem for launch NTOP

2002-02-17 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
snip / For your information i have re-installed ncurses 5.2, because when i launch the configure i have a problem. after this i have re-launch all the sequence ./autogen.sh -1 ./configure make make install BMSGlad it helped. Running autogen is always safe and is a really good idea, because

RE: [Ntop] RE: Need new experience?

2002-02-17 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
1) I don't think it's really that bad - I've only seen two or three messages a month... 2) The only way to fix it would be to make this a moderated list and that isn't going to happen. Luca and his gang don't have the time, and with my snippy little 'tude, you don't want ME doing it, do you???

RE: [Ntop] -release

2002-02-18 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Title: -release How about checking the mail list archives or reading replies to messages you've already sent? I've posted three possible solutions in the FAQs athttp://snapshot.ntop.org. -Burton -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [Ntop] Urgent Query

2002-02-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
1. Throw away the v1.3 source RPM. It's old, different and nobody is interested in offering any support for it. 2. The RPM version - you don't say where you got it or what version it is... You also don't give us information about your system. What OS, what version, etc. As to rpms of

RE: [Ntop] Urgent Query

2002-02-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
: [Ntop] Urgent QueryAchually i am using Linux 7.1 redhat. achually i have installed everything. Is there not any way so that i can start those services(which are not working) from the present installation schemes. "Burton M. Strauss III" wrote: 1. Throw away the v

[Ntop] Multiple users - why

2002-02-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(Answering Bharat's question to the list) Multiple users allow you to control who can alter ntop's performance and/or view specific information. If you look on the "Admin" tab, you will see that you can create additional users and also control which URLs can be executed by whom. For

RE: [Ntop] Bug Report - IPX traffic mis-classified as OSI

2002-02-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
The relevant code is in pbuf.c, from line 1975ff. It's been a long time since I last played with IPX at a low level, so I'll have to read it offline... (Netware 2.15 and 3.11) -Burton If you want to give it a gander, it starts: if((myGlobals.device[deviceId].datalink != DLT_PPP)

RE: [Ntop] NTOP: small bug during install process

2002-02-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
The intop problem has been discussed many times, and there is a solution (two in fact) at http://snapshot.ntop.org/ in the FAQs. As a 3rd solution, the makefile has been updated, but you may not have rerun ./autogen.sh -1 to recreate the generated files... -Burton -Original

RE: [Ntop] ntop reporting on IP protocols ?

2002-02-19 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
ntop uses the libpcap library. Any syntax that libpcap (think tcpdump) will accept, ntop will accept. Just because ntop can select the packets, doesn't mean that ntop knows how to interpret them or anything about the protocol - there are 1000s. Hence the other bucket... If you understand gre,

[Ntop] User restrictions (HOW?) (was something else)

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(I just tested this) If you look at the right side of the screen for creating controlled URLs ( Admin | URLs | Add URL) you will see the * of a wild card. So,proto should match protoThis and protoThat. And a blank URL should (and does) match everything. (In fact, it's there in the note at

[Ntop] List Etiquette

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Some points... 1. Email to the list, not privately to me. That way EVERYONE can benefit from the discussion. 2. If you ask another question, start a new email with a relevant subject line. That way people can see what the question was in the archives. 3. Read the list 4. DO NOT BE

RE: [Ntop] NTOP Web Interface Crashing - apparently in hostTrafficDistrib graph

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
1st thought: Yeah... it's not an ntop problem :-) gd are in the gdchart or gd libraries that ntop uses. eval.c is - wait one - I can't find it... odd! Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of error testing or return codes in those libraries. I'm guessing that ntop is passing it bad data and

[Ntop] RE: List Etiquette

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
EtiquetteI cannot email to the list because Our network administrator has blocked the mailing list. So in that way i am unable to get the feedback,for that reason i am mailing you. "Burton M. Strauss III" wrote: Some points...1. Email to the list, not privately to me. T

[Ntop] RE: ntop for redhat 7.1

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
he related files which are required for ntop,Along with it tell me the installation procedure also because during installation we have to create the directories manually like /usr/local/var. "Burton M. Strauss III" wrote: 1. Throw away the v1.3 source RPM.

RE: [Ntop] (no subject)

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
You are missing a required library. From the name, I'm guessing it's the yacc package... However, I can't seem to find any references to yylex in the source The question was asked once before (http://listmanager.unipi.it/pipermail/ntop/2001-June/000209.html), but no reply ever surfaced. I

RE: [Ntop] changing ntop startup parameters in FreeBSD

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
I think you have to go back to the packager. As far as I know, it's not coming out of http://www.ntop.org... Places like rpmfind.net have email addresses for the packager... I would hope that any place you're installing binaries from would have similar information! Me? I would do a slocate

[Ntop] -S option (was: a couple of questions)

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Yes. You are confused... What is stored is the information about a host, not all of the counts, etc. about a device (network interface). And it's retrieved ONLY when traffic is seen from that host after the restart. So if you go into the host details (e.g. the 192.168.1.1.html page) you

RE: [Ntop] how do i stop logging all mysql captures to syslog?

2002-02-20 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Look in sql.c and mysql.c - for the traceEvent function - not to be picky or anything - no, not me - but shouldn't that #ifndef DEBUG be #ifdef DEBUG...for example: void notifyTCPSession(IPSession *session, int actualDeviceId) { HostTraffic *server, *client; char dt1[32], dt2[32]; struct

RE: [Ntop] GDChart

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
If you have to mod the make files, you should 1st rerun ./autogen.sh -1 to recreate everything, or mode the .am and .in files... You did follow the instructions in docs/BUILD-NTOP.txt, didn't you Why do you "have to" mod them? I've run w. autoconf 1.4, 1.4p5 (RedHat) and 1.5... If

RE: [Ntop] NTOP on RedHat 7.2

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
No there isn't an RPM... ventDOES ANYBODY BOTHER TO READ THE MAILING LIST OR DO THEY JUST POST BLINDLY/vent Check my message traffic with Bharat - I've only posted instructions 3 or 4 times in the last three days... -Burton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Ntop] Recompile for mySQL (was: Win32 version as a service + compile questions??)

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Yes you would have to recompile to enable mySQL support - there is a ton of ifdef code... If I'm reading it right on a quick glance (database/mySQLscript.pl) is just using the Perl ODBC interface to connect between ntop and mySQL... Note that there is another choice, one that doesn't actively

RE: [Ntop] Win32 compile questions?? (was: Win32 version as a service + compile questions??)

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Two basic choices that I'm aware of - I don't know if any other ones have been tried - certainly the makefiles have no traces of it. They are both gcc, but have different execution environments... MinGW - Minimalist GNU For Windows at http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW is a collection of header files

RE: [Ntop] Re: Retransmitted packets

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
I don't know about the internals of tcpdump. I am guessing that it's talking TCP retransmits, which it would be able to detect by the ACK flags and sequence #s? I don't recall any code in ntop to specifically break those out - look at processPacket() {in pbuf.c at the end) - that's where it's

RE: [Ntop] Re: Retransmitted packets

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
}). It always prints 0 Retran. packets. [0%] I looked in pbuf.c and there doesn't seem to be any attempt to detect retransmitted packets. If this is indeed supposed to be a count of retransmitted packets then it might be misleading. Is it? thanks dilan - Original Message - From: Burton M

RE: [Ntop] ntop on VT100

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Nope... with v2, ntop is the collector and web server - the web page *is* the output. Sniffying is the last output one would expect to see unless the trace flag is set. Basically - but understandably -your expectation is wrong... unfortunately, the overview page on http://www.ntop.org is

RE: [Ntop] ntop on VT100

2002-02-21 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
... -Original Message-From: Burton M. Strauss III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 3:53 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [Ntop] ntop on VT100 Nope... with v2, ntop is the collector and web server - the web page *is* the output

[Ntop] RE: [Ntop] Sarò rimbecillito?

2002-02-22 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
(Translated via babelfish): It will be sure a moment in which mine already modest Q.I. is come down under the levels of guard but to the page www.ntop.org/download.html (where they are joint yearning of istallare ntop on MacOS X) every via me seems preclusa: - link the HTTP is not active - Daily

RE: [Ntop] sniffying

2002-02-22 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
I think it's pseudo-english. When you do a google search on sniffying, it asks Did you mean to search for: sniffing You know what a (packet) sniffer is, right? So where a native techo-speaker of english might say sniffing..., somebody added a stray Y.. Why? because we like you (Sorry, that's

RE: [Ntop] help!

2002-02-22 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
Check the FAQs on http://snapshot.ntop.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ntop] help! On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,

[Ntop] ntop2.0

2002-02-22 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
, but out of curiousity, what version of gdbm are you running? Rick Farina Miami University Systems Analysis Major Burton M. Strauss III wrote: In your web page, you have this... I think it has something to do with gdbm. Let's try to tell ntop where to find gdbm. Okay, first I make distclean. Now

RE: [Ntop] Ntop on Solaris 2.6

2002-02-22 Thread Burton M. Strauss III
as I start clicking around the web interface, it crashes. Thanks again. On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:29:58AM -0600, Burton M. Strauss III wrote: Oh man... I've never read a Solaris core file (I had DBAs to do that FOR me grin /)... And IPv6 - you left that little gem out of the 1st message Or: I

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