We've gone back & forth on this list about that issue. I think we ended up with two items.
1. 64MB of RAM is barely sufficient for a SMALL network, if that's all that's on the machine. You'll have to watch it carefully - if you start using swap space, you'll have trouble. 2. A P 166MMX is again, barely sufficient for a lightly loaded network, if that's all that's on the machine. Here the thing to watch is the packet queue and lost packets - both at the ntop and kernel (ifconfig) levels. Sorry, but I can't offer much hope for that small and out-dated a machine doing that much for you... -----Burton ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Boniforti Flavio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:52:43 +0200 > >> >> If you are running a simple masq firewall with two >> interfaces, then you >> don't need -j | --border-sniffer-mode > >I'll take this consideration in account, and I'll start another more >specific question: > >I do have a firewall/gateway machine, which has 3 NICs: one on the >public Internet, one on LAN and the other on DMZ (with private >addresses, though). I think ntop on that machine would reduce >performance, since it is a Pentium166MMX with 64MB RAM and drives my >squid-proxy, my caching-DNS, my iptables-firewall and an SMTP (besides >these there are also Webmin and arpwatch constantly running). > >Would there be a way to successfully use NTOP? And, would there be a >point in using "-j" option? > >Thank you in advance. > > >_______________________________________________ >Ntop mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop > __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ntop.org/mailman/listinfo/ntop
