On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Peter Haag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> - --On April 17, 2008 12:51:02 +0300 Adrian Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> | Sorry, then it seems I read it somewhere else...
> |
> | The exporter's address would be useful when running a top on different
> | sources simultaneously.
> |
> | The question would be: what is more important - to display the actual IP
> of
> | the exporter or to display the name of the configured source that
> exports
> | that information.
>
> I'm not aware of any exporter using the v9 interface name tag, which
>  allows to display
> the configured source interface. To be realistic, the IP address may be
> the only hint.
>

Well, the interface name is not exported in the flows and this is not what I
was asking. Sorry for misleading you, but by  'the source that exports the
information' I meant the source IP that exports the information, not the
source interface...

>
> |
> | If it were a vote, I would vote the second (just display the name of the
> | source); saving exporter IPs in the nfcapd* files would be a waste of
> space
> | if each exporter represents one source.
>
> Well - the waste of space id not that of a problem, as each exporter is
> fully described
> once only, which references to the record. The format of nfcapd.* will be
> extended anyway
> for the additional v9 tags.


Good thinking!

>
>
>    - Peter
>
> |
> | This would be easier to implement and you wouldn't have to change
> anything
> | in the format of the nfcapd* files.
> |
> | Cheers,
> | Adrian
> |
> |
> | On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Peter Haag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> | > Hi Adrian,
> | >
> | > - --On April 17, 2008 8:48:43 +0300 Adrian Popa <
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> | > wrote:
> | >
> | > | Hello everybody,
> | > |
> | > | I seem to remember that the flows saved by nfdump also store the
> | > exporter's
> | > | IP address. Is this true?
> | >
> | > No - up to nfdump-1.5.7 there is no exporter's information in the data
> | > files.
> | > nfdump-1.6, which I'm currently working on, may contain these infos -
> but
> | > not
> | > yet finally decided.
> | >
> | >    - Peter
> | >
> | >
> | > | Also, can I specify an output filter to display this address? if
> yes,
> | > what
> | > | is the syntax (man nfdump didn't reveal anything about this)...
> | > |
> | > | Thank you.
> | >
> | >
> | >
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