There's three simple ways you can contribute to the ntop project. * Cold hard cash - it buys hardware and software for the development process and it puts food on the table.
* Testing/Development - if you've got the skills to help develop ntop, it's always welcome. Best yet, you get to work on the things and problems that concern YOU (for example IPv6). Access to additional platforms would be nice, but are secondary - it's quite difficult just with the few we already have, especially when you consider how many different 'things' there are just to support say Linux - each distros has it's quirks. * Documentation - it's the biggest thing ntop lacks and it's something that ANY ONE OF YOU reading this could contribute. There is a fourth way, but it's more complex: * Equipment or access to same - what we don't have (or don't have access to) we can't test on. In general, it would surely be nice to have sponsors for development or access to equipment. If you want to donate a box with software, support etc. to the ntop project, we would love the contribution. But there don't seem to be any donors, just people expecting ME to care about their PERSONAL agenda for free. Basically, if you aren't one of the TWO people who have voted with cold hard cash, then spare me the attitude. Better yet, take it to /dev/null. Instead, Luca and I have what we've paid for ourselves out of our own pockets. In my case, I've got two i86 boxes which I've built over the years which run Linux and the BSDs quite happily - without a major cash outflow or major project just to keep them up to date. So that's what I test on. -----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leonardo Valcamonici Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ntop-dev] RE: NTOP on Solaris SPARC It's a pity you're not interested in Solaris. I have a version of ntop that works for a reasonable amount of time before crashing, but on a Sun Enterprise 220R it can keep up 1Gbps sustained traffic without any packet drop and with a 40% CPU load. Can you do that easily with another platform? If you'd like to make ntop a useful and performing tool it's better to support Solaris (Sparc & x86) and Linux, leaving alone any Windows stuff. Cheers, Leonardo Burton M. Strauss III wrote: > (Moved to ntop-dev, where this type o' crud belongs) > > First off, understand that I don't really worry about Solaris - yeah, I've > got a partition on owl (i86) that boots, but as an OS it's been nothing but > trouble for me - hardware and software. So there's no incentive to spend > effort (nor one more red cent) on it, unless somebody want's to $ponsor the > work. Luca himself seems to have moved his primary development off Solaris, > so as long as it works for his systems, he's happy. <snip /> _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
