[TEST/REVIEW] Netflow implementation

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 8 01:56:11 PDT 2004


On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:43:34AM +0000, Patrick.Guelat at imp.ch wrote:
P> > here is netgraph module which implements Netflow traffic
P> >accounting, which I'm going to add to CURRENT in recent future:
P> >[..]
P> >I've been testing it for last week on loaded 100Mbit Ethernet
P> >which serves 9 ASes, 12 prefixes :) And it works stable.
P> 
P> Did some tests here, looks very nice ! At least our netflow-collector
P> is happy with the data ;-)

The only empty fields are ASNs :) I hope to fill them in future.

P> flowctl did not work for me, to which
P> node do you have to send the msg to ?

I usually call node "netflow" using 'ngctl name', and then call
'flowctl netflow show'.

P> I attached two netflow nodes on a tee, one right2left and one left2right
P> to catch both directions.

This is working solution, but not correct. :)
To catch both directions you should feed ng_netflow with incoming traffic
from all interfaces.

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