Re: ntop

[Jose Nazario <jose@monkey.org>]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:

> Stable tar.gz is without configure script (you have to use autotools), I
> always thought a release is shipped with configure ...

you can autogen the configure script. pretty easy to do ...

> And there are some other things (as gdchart and libpng is shipped in the
> tgz)

i build my system just fine using those pieces from their respective ports
(skipping the supplied ones)

> I will switch to pfctl labels feature or an own small app which fill up
> a sql-database with the information I need. (pflogd seems to give all
> traffic information, someone need)

i already stated why ntop-2.x is nice and possibly worth the effort:

	- Netflow v5 generation
	- RMON module
	- sFlow module

i haven't seen any free tool do this (if i'm mistaken, please tell me). i
am quite disappointed with the stability of ntop 2 and the threading (as
you seem to be), but i think with some work it could be suitable for use.
the gains seem to be worthwhile, at least to me.

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