Hi Kaya, I suggest you use an OS that is supported by ntop. I would
recommend you use Ubuntu server 12. You will also need to generate netflow
traffic which can be done by a Cisco router/switch. Alternatively you can
use Luca's nprobe.

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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Kaya Saman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've read through the Ntop FAQ and as result acknowledge that most likely
> I won't get a response to this;
>
> but is there any way to override the configure script in order to 'force'
> it to attempt an install on an unsupported platform?
>
> The OS and system that I am trying to install Ntop on is OpenBSD 5.1
> release on a SPARQ64 machine, with Ntop version being 5.0.1 (recently
> downloaded from the site).
>
> In order to generate to config script I used: automake - version 1.9.6p8 :
> autoconf - version 2.65 : subversion - version 1.7.2
>
> ... afterwards it generated without any errors or fudging etc...
>
> I do realize that it should be more about asking package maintainers and
> porters of the OpenBSD project however, since Ntop is still on version 1 I
> envisage what the response would be like.
>
>
> It seems that the configure script gets as far as gcc then blows up....
>
>
> Checking C compiler program and features...
>
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
> checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
>
> ***********************************************************************
> *
> * Checking for unique options for sparc64-unknown-openbsd5.1, gcc...
> *
> * sparc64-unknown-openbsd5.1 is an unknown/unsupported OS
> *
> ***********************************************************************
>
>
>
> Has anyone managed to ever compile Ntop on OpenBSD before or perhaps might
> be able to suggest something of what I can do that's a quick and easy fix
> to get the "configure" script working properly??
>
> Currently I am using OpenBSD as a router/gateway/nat solution which is why
> Ntop would be brilliant to get working on the box rather then bridging
> interfaces and using another server with supported OS to monitor the
> duplicated traffic. - This can be done and is probably what I will need to
> do even though it adds an extra level of complexity to the overall network
> design......
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Kaya
>
>
>
>
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