Unknown - but that's the basic approach that OpenXtra took.

I haven't looked at the license to be sure, and I'll leave it up to
others, as I run it on a FreeBSD box, and it works very well.

Kurt

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:42, Phillip Partipilo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am wondering here, just hypothetically speaking, if some renegade out there 
> compiled it up and made an installer and gave it away for free, so you don’t 
> have to fork out $50 for a precompiled binary, just for the heck of it, would 
> there be anything legally wrong with that? Morally probably. But otherwise?
>
>
> Phillip Partipilo
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 10:06 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: OT NTOP replacement
>
>
>
> For some value of 'correct', I would say not correct. Openxtra is a
> 3rd party offering of the Win32 binary version.
>
> www.ntop.org is your better bet. There may be a small fee for the
> Win32 binary version there, but the source is still freely available.
>
> Luca believes that it's reasonable for those who want a pre-compiled
> Windows binary to pay a few bucks to subsidize his effort, but that
> anyone sophisticated enough to do the compilation themselves should
> have at it.
>
> Of course, running it on *nix is preferred anyway.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 05:43, Eldridge, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Kurt this is what I saw last year when I needed to download it. Not correct?
>>
>> http://www.openxtra.co.uk/freestuff/ntop-xtra
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:37 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: OT NTOP replacement
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:28, Eldridge, Dave <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Due to the fact that NTOP really is no longer supported I am looking to
>>> replace it with a virtual VM appliance to monitor my internet connection .
>>>
>>> Looking for something that is similar and easy to setup and use.
>>>
>>> Is Cacti a good replacement?
>>>
>>> Any others?
>>
>> You are quite mistaken. ntop is still supported, and development is active.
>>
>> Cacti is not a replacement for ntop, nor any other program that I'm
>> aware of, and although etherape and a couple of others are similar,
>> none do exactly what ntop does.
>>
>> OTOH, if all you're looking to do is collect netflow/sflow data and
>> graph it, take a look at this page:
>>
>> http://www.networkuptime.com/tools/netflow/
>>
>> Kurt
>>
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