[Ntop] ntop crashes (win32)

[Luca Deri]

Mike,
ntop for win32 compiled by myself (release 3.3.6) has been reported to 
work well by users. Did you try that one too?

Cheers Luca

Mike Hobbs wrote:
> This has happened several times.  It seems to be when ntop's
> http port (localhost:3000) has been accessed quite a lot, then using
> firefox I visit the router management page (192.168.1.254) and a
> moment later ntop crashes. As usual with Windoze the crash info
> is pretty sparse, just saying ntop.exe had a problem.
>
> I can't really see how passive access of another http server can
> affect ntop running on the local machine but the symptoms are
> as described above every time.  localhost is 192.168.1.101.
>
> I'm running ntop as a service under OPENXTRA commander.
> I'm also running PTRG (traffic grapher) which also has an http
> server on the localhost but port 80. Again, I can't see that
> this should affect ntop.
>
> This raises a few questions:
>  1. anyone any idea why (seen similar symptoms maybe?)
>  2. how can ntop be restarted without rebooting Windoze?
>      (if I stop the service it appears never to stop as the
>       action link always stays as "Stop" and never goes to
>       "Start")
>  3. how do I capture debug info on the win32 version of ntop?
>
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