On Sep 09, "Jeremy Webb" wrote:

[snip]

> I have set up flow-tools in conjunction with flowscan.  Everything appears 
> to be working correctly, other than the fact that my flow files appear to 
> be empty.  Each one has a file size of only 108 bytes.  When something like 
> this occurs, what usually seems to be the problem?  Is it usually a problem 
> with the configuration of the router sending the flows, or is it usually a 
> problem with the flow-tools configuration not processing what it is 
> receiving correctly?
> 
> This is the kind of stuff I see in my flowscan log:
> 
> 2004/09/09 10:50:04 working on file ft-v05.2004-09-09.104500-0600...
> 2004/09/09 10:50:04 flowscan-1.020 CUFlow: Cflow::find took  0 wallclock 
> secs ( 0.01 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.01 CPU) for 108 flow file bytes, flow hit 
> ratio: 0/0
> 2004/09/09 10:50:04 flowscan-1.020 CUFlow: report took  0 wallclock secs ( 
> 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CPU)
> sleep 30...
> sleep 30...
> 
> When I view tcpdump, I see a whole lot of this (moving in pretty quickly):
> 
> 14:21:56.662608 IP 192.168.254.254.56133 > 65.105.158.157.2055: UDP, 
> length: 1464
> 14:21:56.662813 IP 192.168.254.254.56133 > 65.105.158.157.2055: UDP, 
> length: 1464
> 14:21:56.663306 IP 192.168.254.254.56133 > 65.105.158.157.2055: UDP, 
> length: 1464
> 14:21:56.663593 IP 192.168.254.254.56133 > 65.105.158.157.2055: UDP, 
> length: 1464
> 
> This is my router config:
> 
> ip flow-export version 5 peer-as
> ip flow-export source-interface Loopback 0       (This was added as a 
> suggestion to fix our issue.)
> ip flow-export destination 65.105.158.157 2055
> ip flow-cache timeout active 1
> ip route-cache flow    (This was assigned to all interfaces.)
> 
> Thanks for your help.

What does sockstat -4 (freebsd) or netstat -l -4 (linux) say?  Is flow-capture
listening on the correct port?  I got burned once because I updated the
config file but forgot to restart the flow-capture process.

Mike
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