Re: OT: ntop

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 02:52 PM 3/21/00 , you wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
> >
> > Mine is:
> >
> > [hal feenix hal]$ ll /sbin/ntop
> > -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     sys    255928 May  3  1999 /sbin/ntop*
> >
> > I installed via RPM, so this probably whoever did the spec file. Since
> > it needs to go into promiscuous mode (AFAIK), it may need to be
> > owned by root also.
>
> well, i did a chmod 6755 on it such that it appeared as:
>
> -rwsr-sr-x   1 Stephen  users      746388 Mar 21 10:17 /usr/local/sbin/ntop
>
> and chmod 755 so it is:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 Stephen  users      746388 Mar 21 10:17 /usr/local/sbin/ntop
>
> but the result is still the same.  i also get the same results when
> owner/group is root, so that can't be it either.


Well, there are a bunch of things that could go wrong:

Is it running?
Try telnetting to the ntop port, what exactly does it tell you?
Are you trying from the same machine?  If not, can you access the ntop 
machine?
Can you telnet to other ports on the ntop computer?
Are you using ipchains on that computer?  Are you blocking yourself?
Are you running portsentry which is blocking access?
Were you running portsentry before and it dropped route to you?
Do you have a buggy version of ntop?

All I can tell you is that I got the rpm's from, I think, the ntop web page 
a while ago, installed it on RH 6.1, started it up using port 3000, and it 
worked fine.

-Alan
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