Dear Sir, Much as I hate to try and ween someone of MS products, you may like to consider
1 New ntops have RRD support so your stats are safe for a good long time (probably a week, you'd have to look at the RRD definitions). RRDs are a better way of storing time series data than databases, no ifs or buts. If you are familiar with Cricket, MRTG (with RRD backend) etc etc you will see that RRD is a standards track product. 2 The ntop developers publish the Unix equivalent of 'Installshield' installation under MS: simple, managable, safe. The name is either RPM or Package. You can get them for nothing from SourceForge. The reason Unix is free and Windows is not is because the developers have to pay for their Windows development tools whereas equivalent tools are free on Unix. You don't have to be a Linx geek to use software in this form. <rant> Linux on the other hand rewards you if you know more. You'll be happier and healthier with a few less blue screens, endless box rebuilds etc etc </rant> As for your getting a new version of Ntop of Windows (with the RRD support), perhaps you should look at your support agreement/end user license with the version you bought. Perhaps there is a discounted rate for upgrades/replacements. Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne. _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
