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starting ntop
Hi,

Finally compiled ntop successfuly. Running it as:

% ntop

gives ok results with the exception of:

WARNING: unable to load plugin '/usr/local/lib/ntop/plugins/libpep.so'
[undefined symbol: Perl_hv_undef]

Then every minute I get the following appended:

23/Jul/2001:13:38:10 Purging Idle Hosts...
23/Jul/2001:13:38:10 Purging completed.

Anyway, going to my web browser on localhost::3000 I get the ntop page but
there doesn't seem to be any activity.
My logs show that my NIC has entered promiscuous mode.

What do I need to do to get this to work? The ntop site doesn't say
anything about this. Do I need to set up a filter? No default?

Here is all the output after issueing the ntop command:

Wait please: ntop is coming up...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Initializing IP services...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Parsing command line options...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 SSL is present but https is disabled: use -W <https
port> for enabling it
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Initializing SSL...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Initializing GDBM...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Initializing network devices...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 ntop v.2.0.0 MT (SSL) [i686-pc-linux] (07/19/01
07:38:40 PM build)
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Listening on [eth0]
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Copyright 1998-2001 by Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org>
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Initialising...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Loading plugins (if any)...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Searching plugins in /usr/local/lib/ntop/plugins
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Welcome to icmpWatchPlugin. (C) 1999 by Luca Deri.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Welcome to LastSeenWatchPlugin. (C) 1999 by Andrea
Marangoni.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Welcome to nfsWatchPlugin. (C) 1999 by Luca Deri.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:43 Welcome to ntopRmon. (C) 2000 by Luca Deri.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Welcome to WAPPlugin. (C) 2000 by Luca Deri.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 WARNING: unable to load plugin
'/usr/local/lib/ntop/plugins/libpep.so'
[undefined symbol: Perl_hv_undef]
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 WARNING: For security reasons it is STRONGLY
recommended to
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 WARNING: run ntop as unprivileged user by using the -u
option!
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Resetting traffic statistics...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Started thread (1026) for lsof support.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Started thread (2051) for network packet analyser.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Started thread (3076) for host traffic statistics.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Started thread (4101) for throughput update.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Started thread (5126) for idle hosts detection.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Started thread (6151) for DNS address resolution.
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Initialising plugins (if any)...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Waiting for HTTP connections on port 3000...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 ntop/RMON started
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Sniffying...
23/Jul/2001:13:24:44 Started thread (9226) for network packet sniffing on
eth0.
23/Jul/2001:13:25:46 Purging Idle Hosts...
23/Jul/2001:13:25:46 Purging completed.

Peter Matulis