Ack.  Figured it out: My UDP checksums were incorrect.  I fixed that and
things are working as expected now.

Sorry for the bother - looks like everything is working correctly now.

Thanks.
On May 12, 2015 11:13 AM, "Michael Jeung" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using version 5 of ntop only.  Here's my config:
>
> ntopng -e -I tcp://127.0.0.1:5556
>
> nprobe --zmq "tcp://127.0.0.1:5556" -u 1 -Q 1 -i none -n none
> --collector-port 2055 -b 2 --debug --interpret-flow-packets --syslog nprobe
> -t 900 -d 900 -l 900 -V 5 --dump-pkts /var/nprobe.pcap --dump-bad-packets
> /var/nprobe_bad.pcap
>
> I'm running nprobe version v.7.1.150506 (r46666)
>
> Strangely the dump-pkts and dump-bad-packets files never get anything in
> them, even when I send 'good' traffic from the simulator.
>
> Michael
> On May 12, 2015 12:08 AM, "Yuri Francalacci" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> what is the configuration you are using? Are you using netflow v9/ipfix?
>> if so, this issue might be caused by the template. But this could be just
>> an idea.
>> Yuri
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>> On 12 May 2015, at 01:17, Michael Jeung <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have ntopng setup with nprobe on my network for monitoring net flow
>> devices.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I've got it configured correctly because when I use the
>> Paessler Netflow Simulator to generate some sample netflow data, nprobe
>> picks it up as expected and I can see it visualized on ntopng.  Great!
>>
>> However, now I'm trying to get nprobe to recognize traffic from one of my
>> network devices.  I wrote some code that outputs netflow packets and for
>> the last couple of days I've made the output match the "good" packets that
>> the Paessler traffic generator is creating and nprobe is consuming.
>>
>> However, I'm running into a problem that is really stumping me.  No
>> matter how closely I try to mirror the Paessler netflow traffic, nprobe
>> consistently ignores my traffic - but every time I start up the simulated
>> Paessler traffic, nprobe eagerly accepts it.  (I can tell because I'm
>> running nprobe in verbose logging mode and I can see exactly when it emits
>> a new flow over zmq.)
>>
>> So, my question is this: is there a good way to get nprobe to tell me WHY
>> it's ignoring the netflow packets that I generate?
>>
>> Right now, I'm sending my netflow packets to nprobe on port 2055 (just
>> like Paessler) but I don't see anything show up in the log.  It's like
>> nprobe is just silently dropping my packets.
>>
>> I've verified my netflow packets are hitting the nprobe CentOS box with
>> tcpdump.  I've also verified that my netflow packets are well-formed using
>> Wireshark.  I'm quite confused why nprobe seems to be ignoring me, but
>> picks up Paessler's simulated traffic no problem.
>>
>> Is there some persistent nprobe data I need to flush?  (I've tried
>> rebooting, no luck.) Maybe nprobe has somehow locked on to the simulated
>> traffic and that's why it's ignoring me?
>>
>> Any tips would be greatly appreciated!   Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
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