On Saturday March 7 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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But be aware that it uses resources, memory usage grows with time.
Some weird stuff, too, though it's only a suspicion / hunch so far that it's ntop. The first thing I noticed was that after starting the ntop daemon, IDEA (JetBrains / IntelliJ Java IDE) hung when starting up for the first time ever and I had to kill it. I suspected it might have tried to connect to port 3000 for some reason (it's a very large and complicated program with many plug-ins that uses network connections of many sorts), so I stopped the ntop daemon and restarted IDEA. It did not hang that time, though this doesn't prove anything about an possible interaction between ntop and IDEA. Then I looked in /var/log/messages and noticed that at the same time that I had shut down the ntop daemon, this was logged: Mar 7 08:46:44 twain kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode Which strongly suggests that ntop puts interfaces in promiscuous mode, which is something I'd prefer not to do on a permanent or ongoing basis. The ntop daemon also failed to shut down cleantly, with this log entry immediately following the preceding one: Mar 7 08:46:44 twain kernel: ntop[18742]: segfault at 11c ip b75313fc sp b181d2f0 error 4 in libpcap.so.0.9.8 [b752c000+32000]
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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