You are better off sticking to flatfiles, perl and RRD. Excel wont be able to deal with the amount of data that netflow generates, and a database is just a VERY expensive way of doing it (Data grows to at least 4 times the size)... Maybe you are agregating a lot more than we did...
Cheers Andrew > RRDTool gives a lot of flexibility, and is a related project of mrtg. > Recently I got to use what is marketed as pivot :) In short, if you > could dump your data in a database or even in a flat file, you can > connect to it through a spreadsheet (open-office is fully compatible > for the perticular feature wih MS excell). The beauty of this > technique is, you can give any no of different dimentions (olap word, > in short lets say in case of time -> years, months, weeks, days, > hours...), and create a report, and it allows you to drill down, just > as you like. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]