Folks: Had a PC running NTOP 3.0 on FBSD 4.9-RELEASE for many months w/o
probs. At least a couple of weeks ago, NTOP started crashing @ boot time.
I take the box off-line, test it, and NTOP will start manually. So for
the hell of it, let's upgrade.
Per msgs on the mail list, I pulled down the latest CVS snapshot, using
the precise instructions from ntop.org. It d/l'd, of course, but it
wouldn't
MAKE. (BTW, this I d/l'd the snapshot Fri 6 May.) Crapped out immed due to
an error in the myrrd sub-dir:
"No rule to make target 'am--refresh'"
Copied the myrrd/ sub-dir from the 3.0 distribution (never deleted it),
but that failed in myrrd/ too, but this time after compilation started.
Let's try 3.1. The build worked w/o incident, but the pcap daemon/module
kept
crapping out in no time at all.
I GOOGLE'd up a msg from Burton on 21 Feb, indicating a specific libpcap
patch avail via CVS for FBSD -> ntop.c. Applied it, recompiled: no more
pcap failures ! YAY ! Been running for several days w/o any failures of
consequence.
1) Is this the only thing I need to know about WRT FreeBSD and NTOP ?
2) NTOP reports libpcap is dropping packets. Nothing serious (usu <
1%), but would upgrading libpcap make a difference ? Yeah, I know I can
change Ethernet cards too, but....
BTW, I like the new web page design. Later....Jet
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