[bwm-tools-tech] Re: Bandwidth Management

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

Adam M. Towarnyckyj wrote:

>             I apologize for having to email you directly, but it seems
> there is a problem with the bwm mailing list. I tried to subscribe and
> haven't gotten any sort of confirmation email even though it says it
> was sent. I figured the direct approach might work.
>
no problem

strange.... sourceforge reports no problems

>             I am looking for a program that would be able to graph
> traffic statistics of VOIP activity. After much searching online, the
> only free software I could come up with was ntop and your bwm. (If you
> know of anything better, please share.) I figured all I needed to
> monitor was traffic on ports 5060 and 5061 and this is easily
> accomplished with your program. Ntop had too many bugs and caused a
> lot of hassle I'd rather not get into.
>
bwm tools can do this easily.

>             My problem is that on configuration of bwm, it yells at me
> about glib 2.2.0 even though the rpm is installed.
>
do you have glib-2.2.0 devel package(s) installed? this is probably what
its complaining about

> I run on Redhat 9.0 and couldn't find anyone with this same problem on
> the mailing list for the latest version of bwm.
>
best version to use is the current snapshot (development version), its
proven to be quite stable and addresses fixes for alot of bugs and problems.

> The thing is, when I do an rpm -qa and grep out glib, it shows I have
> the old glib 1.2 installed and the new glib installed only the new
> glib is glib2.
>
they should work happily together

> After rummaging through your configure script, I noticed you are using
> pkg-config to determine what glib is running. Would the fact that it
> is named glib2 have anything to do with my problem?
>
nope... its probably after the development libraries and headers, most
problably package  glib2-devel-2.2.0*.rpm?

> Uninstalling glib 1.2 won't work for there are too many dependencies
> on the box already. I really hate Linux and am a BSD user myself, but
> the kernel options for packet filtering on linux were just too good
> compared to the BSD options so I had to choose linux. I also tried
> downloading and compiling the source for glib 2.0 which didn't work at
> all either.
>
try install the development libraries  :-)

>             Do you have any suggestions you could offer? It would help
> me greatly and would be much appreciated.
>
as per above, hope it helps!

-Nigel