Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing with some comments about ntop-1.32 (October 26 preview) :- 1 configure does not detect the Posix thread support in FreeBSD. This is becuase I think that it attempts to link the create_pthread() test program with -lpthread or -lpthreads. FreeBSD (man 3 pthread) uses the linker switch -pthread to link a program against libc_r (with threads) instead of libc (without). Hacking configure to "deal" with this leads to 2 the ntop binary then consumes "all" or a great deal of the free CPU cycles. It consumes far more than ntop built without thread support (>95% compared with < 20%). 3 Packet loss on an unloaded host (running only snort and ntop) monitoring a 100 Mbps segment is about 20% ! Thank you for your comments, Yours sincerely, S Hopcroft IP Australia
