Your assumption is correct.
NTOP will attempt to put the interface into promisuous mode unless you
use the -s or --no-promiscuous flag.
As indicated by Gary it uses libpcap to do this.
Check out the ntop manpage for details (excerpt below).

Stefan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Gary Gatten
> Sent: Thursday, 26 July, 2007 17:18
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Ntop] NTOP Promiscuous Mode
> 
> Not familiar with Centos, but all other *nix based systems I 
> know of it
> will try to put it in promiscuous mode by itself.  I actually think
> libpcap is what does this.  I've seen permission issues cause failures
> here - as well as really old drivers / libpcap stuff.
> 
> G
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Pete Sepulveda
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:14 AM
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> Subject: [Ntop] NTOP Promiscuous Mode
> 
> 
> I have the latest version of NTOP running on Centos 4.  Am I 
> correct to
> assume that NTOP will put the interface it's configured to listen on
> into promiscuous mode or do I need to manually put the interface into
> that mode?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pete
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