Peter Haag wrote:
> Hi Maurizio,
> 
> --On February 19, 2008 12:35:24 +0000 Maurizio Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> 
> | Hi again,
> | I'm starting to suspect that the occasional flow losses I'm seeing in
> | nfsen are caused by the flow-tools flow-fanout that I placed in front of
> | nfcapd. Actually, my (average) flow rate into the collector is around
> | 1Mbit/s (but flows come in big bursts...),  and then I had 5 internal
> | fanouts on the loopback interface (so 6 Mbit/s of traffic to handle).
> | Now I removed three of these five fanouts, and I'll see how it goes.
> |
> | Can I ask the list:
> |
> | 1) if anybody using flow-fanout to duplicate flows before nfcapd had
> | ever noted flow losses because of it
> | 2) are there other flow fan-out tools that can be used? how do they
> | perform? (e.g. what about samplicator? will it support v9?)
> 
Hi Peter,
a few clarifications:
> With nfcapd, you can daisy-chain a netflow stream. Using -R to repeat
> the received UDP packet to another host. The additional args ( -R )
> for nfcapd can be specified in the %sources array as 'optarg'
1) I assume in the above you are describing the case where nfcapd is 
started through nfsen (thus you're referring to the nfsen.conf file, 
right?). Do you have a small example for what you suggest?
Note: I have packets from several routers on different ports, and would 
like to keep this separation (e.g. all packets from X.X.X.X:11111 go to 
Y.Y.Y.Y:21111)

2) if I want to do the above manually (e.g. because I don't wan to run 
nfsen on the fanout host), and keep the port separation , do I have to 
write, in the example above, nfcapd.... -p 11111 -R  Y.Y.Y.Y/21111 ?

3) is it possible to force the IP src of the replicated udp packet to 
remain the same (like the spoofing option of flow-tools)?

4) can the destination host be also the loopback interface?

Thanks,
Maurizio

> 
> samplicator itself works fine too. As it works on UDP packet level, the
> netflow version is not relevant. ( as it is not for -R with nfcapd )
> 
> Use nfcapd for simple daisy-chains and samplicator, if you need more than
> a single repeated stream.
> 
>     - Peter
> 
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Maurizio
> |
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