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I gave up on using flow-fanout to distribute flows, and bought a flow
mirroring appliance from Lancope.com

Jonathan G.

jay alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Supposed we have a netflow collector which captures
> raw flows using flow-scan, throws a copy of each to a
> flow-capture listening on loopback and another copy on
> a remote machine.
> 
> The ip which runs flow-fanout is 192.168.1.19.
> The ip of another collector is 192.168.1.20
> 
> 
> Flow-fanout was started like this:
> 
> /usr/bin/flow-fanout 192.168.1.19/0/2054
> 127.0.0.1/0/2054 192.168.1.19/192.168.1.20/2054
> 
> Flow-capture was started like this:
> /usr/bin/flow-capture -w /var/netflow/ft/all
> 127.0.0.1/0/2054 -S5 -V5 -e864 -n287 -N0
> 
> Now, I have encountered several problems, which I
> think pertains to the "Bugs" section of flow-fanout
> manpage:
> 
> 
> First, the flows being received by flow-capture, has
> now a router exporter ip of 127.0.0.1. With this, I
> got weird netflows having random ifindex numbers above
> 100. The same erroneous flows arrives on 192.168.1.20.
> The manpage says this is a bug (having the exporter
> router ip lost when using flow-fanout), and I assume
> that this is the cause why I am getting wrong
> ifindexes, and a workaround would be to use IP aliases
> and localip option. Can you please clarify how this
> should be done, and why this bug is happening. The
> exporterip as well as the ifindex is important to us
> because, there is an instance when a host appears at
> the top talkers but when we ping it, it doesn't reply,
> and we are assuming that it's either filtered or the
> ip is spoofed. However, to find out if this is
> spoofed, we have find out what interface on the
> exporter router it enters. Only that, it is not
> possible with flows received from flow-fanout..
> 
> 
> That's all for now. Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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OIT Information Security       Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0700          Office/Cell: 404-385-6900
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