Being 1 that uses gen2 in their production servers, it does take knowedge of linux to setup and time depending on speed of your system it can take 24 hours to just get the basic system up and working, if it is your first linux to play with b4wared there are no fancy guis to be used
the most current version that someone made an ebuild for is 2.2c which is the most current stablelisted on sf.net which was ebuilt and put out on 26 sep 2003 mholzer at gentoo dot org and todd at gentoo dot org are the two people that have done the most recent modifications to the ebuilds for ntop, you might want to check out the mailing list or the forums to see what other people have had on ntop success. personally i would say the most time is configureing gentoo, ntop should be pritty easy to install and configure as long as you read the back traffic, faqs and the ntop web sites, and same goes for gentoo my personal experince has never gone 2 well with it on gentoo but that is probably for my lack of putting my full effort towards it and my own ignorace of linux, however a friend and fellow gentoo user has suceeded on making it work out of the box. good luck chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ntop General Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:17 PM Subject: RE: [Ntop] Recommended stable OS platform for Ntop? Thanks for the tips. I am not familiar with Gentoo, but I checked their web site, and the propaganda sounds really good. This generates more questions: You said it will take a long time to set up. Is this a difficult time, or just time consuming? Is most of the time spent configuring Gentoo, or Ntop under Gentoo? Who is in control of the Ntop "Portage" for Gentoo, and how much lag is there when a new version of Ntop is released? Other than removing the fluff, does Gentoo offer anything special that RH doesn't? At the moment, Mac is out of the question. We are knee-deep in Microsoft. In fact, we aren't running any Linux boxes aside from a Freesco router in the lab. I have messed with Linux off and on in the past, and am fairly comfortable getting around the basics, and following instructions for the advanced topics, such as building larger packages. It sounds like RH9 might be slightly better for me, but I might try Gentoo. - Will C. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burton M. Strauss III Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ntop] Recommended stable OS platform for Ntop? 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 _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
