Thorsten I bet it's a packet that causes a loop while decoding it. A DNS/DHCP packet is a good candidate. Can you please investigate with a debugger and report to me?
Thanks, Luca Thorsten Volkmer-Wolf wrote: > Hello community, > > It's been a while since i've been here.....so: 'hello again'. And, as it > nearly allways happens, i'm back 'cause i've got a problem. > > My installation of ntop runs fine for a couple of hours or even a day, all > over a sudden it keeps recording null values into it's rrd databases. I've > read that it might be a daemon in the background resetting the interface, > investigation in this direction lead to nothing. There are even no broadcasts > beeing counted. In the messages log there's no entry showing the change of > promiscuous mode. > > A tcpdump shows that there's still loads of traffic on the interface, but > ntop doesn't recognize it. The plugin "host last seen' also shows no updates, > it seems like the interface has been taken from 'wire' completely, allthough > traffic is still going through it as allready mentioned. > > Are there any ideas in which direction to search for the fault? Thanks for > any hints in advance, > > Thorsten > > --------- > Dipl.-Ing. > Thorsten Volkmer-Wolf > IT-Support & Services > > AEROTEC Engineering GmbH > Hein-Saß-Weg 38 > 21129 Hamburg / Germany > > fon +49 (0)40/742 198-241 > fax +49 (0)40/742 198-111 > http://www.aerotec.de <http://www.aerotec.de/> > > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Hoffmann, Rainer Feddersen, Amtsgericht Itzehoe HRB > 1512 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > -- Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://luca.ntop.org/ skype://lucaderi/ Don't be encumbered by past history. Go off and do something wonderful - Robert Noyce _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
