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Re: Netflow IP accounting and IP protocol numbers

  • From: Adrian Bool
  • Date: Thu Nov 20 11:10:23 1997

On Thu 20 Nov, steven hessing wrote:
> The other day we started using Cisco netflow accounting software
> together with IP flow export feature of recent Cisco IOS versions.
> 
> What we found was that although we put a lot of protocols in the
> nfknown.protocols file of the accounting software (everywthing we
> could find in the /etc/services file of Solaris and Linux), there
> is still a lot of traffic under TCP-Other and UDP-Other. This
> indicated that traffic is going over our network using ports that
> the software doesn't know about.
> 
> This could for example be Real-audio, Cuseeme, Pointcast, Backweb
> etc traffic. Unfortunately, I don't have a list of these newer
> protocols together with their port numbers. Has anyone compiled
> such a list? There's the Assigned numbers RFC but the last version
> of it is RFC 1700 of October 1994.

Try,

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers

It doesn't give a date it was last updated - but the list is bloody
long so should do you ;-)

Cheers,

aid

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