Hi Graeme,

When I issue "ipconfig eth1 up", erverything is OK!

Many thanks for your advice!

Thank you all!

2008/7/11 Graeme Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi
>
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:00 +0800, Yu Wan wrote:
> > I have problem on ntop v.3.3.6 (Dag Apt RPM Repository) on CentOS 5.0
> >
> > I have one PC with 256M memory and 2 NIC, eth0 used for management,
> > and eth1 was spaned from switch for my internet router.
> > When I run with "ntop @/etc/ntop.conf", the system complain "**ERROR**
> > pcap_open_live(): 'bind: Network is down'"
>
> As root: "ifconfig eth1 up"
>
> Then start ntop as the user you want to run it as. It's fine having a
> mirror port with no IP address, but it must be brought up or the kernel
> will ignore every packet it receives. ntop will not bring the interface
> up for you, you have to do that for ntop.
>
> Note that you may also have to put it into promiscuous mode, depending
> on your kernel - that would be "ifconfig eth1 up promisc"
>
> This is a fairly basic OS function, nothing to do with ntop!
>
> Graeme
>
> Graeme
>
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