North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NetFlow collector..
On Sun Feb 03 00:43:03 2002, Alex Rubenstein asked: >I have been looking around for a while now, for a piece of software that >can sit on a *nix box, and simply export netflows from a promiscuous mode >media adapter. >For instance; I've become used to using the ip flow-aggregation stuff >(specificall for AS), as follows: >ip flow-aggregation cache as > export destination x.x.x.y 4444 > enabled >Problem being tho, that on the 6509/MSFC2/PFC platform, to use this, you >have to raise the traffic flow out of hardware-switched PFC to MSFC >software switching/routing. >What I'd like to do is take a unix box, with a gig-e or whatnot interface, >mirror traffic to it, and let it generate the flow's to be collected by >another machine. >Anyone got some pointers, or insight? How are others doing AS flows? InMon sFlow Probe <http://www.inmon.com/probes.htm> is a commercial product that can generate full NetFlow v5 records. It uses iBGP to get AS information from the router. Detailed AS-path data can be exported using sFlow (RFC 3176) <http://www.sflow.org/>. Peter
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