RE: [Ntop] Win32

[Mark Gibbons]

This is a tricky one.   Perhaps there just should NOT be a version for windows OR perhaps it should just be a DEMO ONLY version   We purchased NTOP last year, about this time, and it clearly showed us the fanatastic capabilities of the program.  However, for the past year we have struggled with it, waiting eagerly for each upgrade hoping for resolutions but as other people have found it is next to useless.   We have just setup a Redhat 8.0 box to act as a firewall between a wireless network and our main network.  We installed the ntop sources from CVS , compiled, and we now have a WORKING, STABLE tool.   So..   Point A:   If we had not been able to try ntop (on windows, as we had no nix servers) we would not have known how good it was.   Point B:    Because ntop is so unusable on windows people think (myself included) that it would be the same on *nix and this gives a bad impression.   So perhaps win32 ntop should only ever be a DEMO of the *real* product in the *nix environment.   I personally believe that the win32 version (or the support therof)  should NOT be charged for becuase it is UNFIT and UNSUPPORTABLE.  Paying for it gets people browned off as they do not appreciate the hours that go into it - all they see is that they have paid for something THAT DOES NOT WORK.   Just my two pennies.   Mark Gibbons OEM Computer Systems, UK -----Original Message----- From: Pagel, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 November 2003 09:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AW: [Ntop] Win32 Alan,   what you see is what (I guess) most of the Win32 users experience… NTOP seams to be very unstable in the Win32 version. Do you use RRD? I get a slightly better behaviour if I switch off the RRD plugin, but that might be a special case.   The support for the Win32 version is very very limited, there were lots of complains about that in the backtraffic. As a paying contributor I feel very disappointed about that. Luca (the brain behind ntop) was very busy getting ntop stable with Win32, but this is months ago, I gave him access to my box to use it as an additional test environment, but he doesn’t use it anymore.   Sometimes we see a new version, sometimes the situation gets better, sometimes worse. So we all hope that Luca (or someone else) will find some time to get it fixed…       Thomas     Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Alan Lee Gesendet: Sonntag, 23. November 2003 14:00 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: [Ntop] Win32   Hello   We have installed NTOP for Windows onto a Windows 2000 server box, with two network cards.  Im using the registered version, which I had paid for so there shouldn't be a 1000 packet limit as I understand.   NTOP starts working fine to begin with, but after say around 10ish minutes - it stops collecting data and resets all current counters, as in it reports 'No Data to Display' in the IP Traffic area and other area's show no traffic at all.  No IP addresses listed or anything,  when it did only just a few minutes before showing ip addresses, bandwidth usage etc.  Im using the latest version, which is 2.2.96   What more should I say about the situation?   Thank you