RH has issues... 7.3 and 8 are no longer supported as of 31Dec2003 (tomorrow), so those may not be appropriate either.
RH9 is the only major major distro with the nptl library (Fedora 1 uses nptl too). However, I do development ON RH9 so - aside from the occasional warning re SIGIGN and child processes, it seems quite stable. I would use Linux - we do a lot less testing, etc. on FreeBSD, although there are a couple of loyal users (Happy Holidays Stanley) who do a lot of testing for us. Luca uses Mac OS X extensively, so that's an option. ntop doesn't work under NetBSD nor OpenBSD, although Julian is close to making O3.4 work... Since you really want a stripped down OS, ntop and no extraneous servers, you might look into Gentoo - it will take a LONG time to get it set up, but at the end of the process, ntop and the associated software will be the ONLY thing running. -----Burton > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Will > C. > Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 11:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] Recommended stable OS platform for Ntop? > > > Hello: > > I am looking to build a single Ntop PC for monitoring the Internet traffic > on a smaller LAN. Our maximum speed would probably be T1 speeds, although > we may occasionally use it to monitor our internal 100BaseT traffic. Our > primary goal is stability. We will probably be putting this on a spare > laptop (600 to 800 MHz). > > I will probably be using Red Hat Linux as the OS, since I am most familiar > with it (aside from Win32). Does it matter what version of RH I install? > Do some versions seem more stable than others? I installed Ntop some time > last year on an underpowered system, and it seemed pretty stable. > > I am willing to try other free OSs, perhaps some BSD or another Linux > distro, if I have good instructions on building Ntop. I don't > want to fight > an uphill battle compiling either. Perhaps Luca or Burton know which OSs > get the most attention (i.e. bug fixes) during development. Is Red Hat my > best option? > > Any opinions or experiences? > > Thanks in advance! > > - Will C. > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
