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A Quick Tutorial running Ntop on Snow Leopard

I installed Ntop on Snow Leopard last night* and it was a fairly painless process. Hear are my notes - a quick tutorial if you like.

Make sure you have the latest version of the developer tools installed and X11 both of which are available via apples developer site (you can get a free account that will allow you to down load these products).

http://developer.apple.com/

Because Ntop needs lots of dependence's your going to need to also install Macports/
http://www.macports.org/

Once you have done that you need to install the following packages

sudo port install gdbm
sudo port install libgeoip

Then make and compile

sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo make
sudo make install

Once you have that installed you should be ok to go with a command like this.

sudo ntop -P /path/to/some_folder/you_have?acces_to/ -i en0

The first time you run ntop it will take you thru a password setup.

Once you are up and running

Then open your browser to http://localhost:3000/

Your good to go!

*I've written about ntop befor if you want some informationa about what it does have a look at This post




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