Re: [pmacct-discussion] Dynamic Table not created

2009-04-09 Thread Sven Anderson
to this > list and do it yourself. No, the link at the bottom doesn't help. But this link does: http://www.pmacct.net/mailman/listinfo/pmacct-discussion (look at the bottom of the page) Regards, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute of Computer Science - University of Goettingen Goldschmidts

[pmacct-discussion] numeric MySQL scheme

2007-08-24 Thread Sven Anderson
hints? Shall I write the patch against SVN to include it in the official version? I think of a config-key like "mysql_numeric: true" to use a numeric SQL scheme. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universi

Re: [pmacct-discussion] IP billing solution for datacenter

2007-05-08 Thread Sven Anderson
Daniel schrieb: >> I have recently join this list this is my firest >> question for you i am working in datacenter so i need ip base >> accouting and billing for customer means i will assign client server >> on my datacenter switch and collect ip traffic from that port and >> genrate b

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Total traffic issue

2007-02-07 Thread Sven Anderson
width as the monitored port, as the traffic of both directions has to go out in one direction. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany ___

Re: [pmacct-discussion] pmacct measures less traffic than ethereal does

2007-01-16 Thread Sven Anderson
e. Or at least shutting down all services and setting up static arp entries, to avoid unwanted traffic. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany __

Re: [pmacct-discussion] pmacct measures less traffic than ethereal does

2007-01-09 Thread Sven Anderson
;background noise", that is irregular broadcasts and stuff like that. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany _

[pmacct-discussion] Performance survey

2006-11-17 Thread Sven Anderson
nd a 6 Mbit DSL line over a 1Gbit mirroring port in promiscuous mode. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Classification

2006-11-17 Thread Sven Anderson
se. So I suggest just first and last packet as time stamps. BTW.: I think it's really a mistake to use local time as timestamps. Why not using seconds since 1970/1/1 0:00 UTC? This is standard and unambiguous. > Ideally, I would like more detailed information about the flow at various >

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Classification

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Anderson
Sven Anderson, 16.11.2006 18:45: > What works a lot better in general is removing the small flows. You can > remove about 95% of the flows by aggregating only 5% of the small-flow Sorry, this is not understandabl

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Classification

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Anderson
plugin. Data reduction can also be useful for other exports, like Netflow. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany ___

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Classification

2006-11-16 Thread Sven Anderson
sources for other stuff (like creating new threats) you might reach this limit earlier. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany _

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Classification

2006-11-07 Thread Sven Anderson
last packet in a flow, and one for the time the flow got "closed" (or updated the last time) which would correspond to the "time-slot" the flow belongs to. The third one is probably not really necessary, as you can calculate it from the other timestamps and the configuratio

Re: [pmacct-discussion] port graphs (was: classification with src + dst ip)

2006-08-02 Thread Sven Anderson
port? I wrote some perl-scripts to generate "accumulated port graphs" like the one you can see here: http://sven.anderson.de/misc/ports.png . If there is interest, I could publish them. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Templates (was: Help, nfacctd cannot read Netflow v9 data from Cisco router)

2006-07-18 Thread Sven Anderson
e database tables, as these have a fixed column structure, an there is no column for "MPLS_LABEL_1". Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, German

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Help, nfacctd cannot read Netflow v9 data from Cisco router

2006-07-17 Thread Sven Anderson
K Netflow v9 also uses templates to define flows. What happens so far with a template and the according data, which contain flow keys that don't exists in the pmacct flow table? Are they dropped? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-go

Re: [pmacct-discussion] raw data - question

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Anderson
ee this also as an argument for an data-access API, which I proposed in the other mail. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettin

Re: [pmacct-discussion] pmacctd -> netflow/sflow export

2006-07-11 Thread Sven Anderson
Hi all, Paolo Lucente, 05.07.2006 01:07: > while the idea of integrating a kind of sFlow/NetFlow probe has been > already considered (i remember some thoughts recently exchanged with > Sven Anderson about this), i'm somewhat not fully convinced. [...] > Integrating either

Re: [pmacct-discussion] PostgreSQL performance

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Anderson
which seemed to never end (>30 minutes). I had only two indexes on this table: "tcom_v5_20060530_idx" btree (ip_src, ip_dst, stamp_inserted) "tcom_v5_20060530_stamp_idx" btree (stamp_inserted) After dropping the tcom_v5_20060530_idx, the query was answ

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Comparing nfacctd and pmacctd

2006-05-24 Thread Sven Anderson
nationIPAddress", which contains the IP address after the NAT-process, then you have both IP adresses in the flow, but nfacct cannot handle this flow key yet AFAIK. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.

Re: [pmacct-discussion] Comparing nfacctd and pmacctd

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Anderson
the packets have to be tagged and metered on both interfaces, so that you can export two flows, which are linked somehow, for example with a FlowID. But if at all, this is only possible with Netflow v9 or IPFIX. Hope, that helps a bit. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics -

Re: [pmacct-discussion] dynamic table names

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Anderson
Hi Jamie, Jamie Wilkinson, 03.05.2006 02:52: > It's outside the transaction, so it doesn't blow up horridly. It is > annoying to see 3600 messages in your logs, sure. well it's 1440 per day for me. That's not so nice, I will solve it with a cronjob. Cheers, Sven -

Re: [pmacct-discussion] PostgreSQL performance

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Anderson
, where you don't have to know, where and in which format the data is stored. ;-) Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany

Re: [pmacct-discussion] PostgreSQL performance

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Anderson
ks only in the two touched hours? > I have counter tables with 7+ million records in Pg, and no complaints > at all from the people hitting web apps that are hitting them. > Therefore I created an acct_monthly, > acct_daily, and acct_hourly tables. acct_monthly is blazing fast because >

[pmacct-discussion] FloX v0.1 Release (Flow eXplorer)

2006-05-11 Thread Sven Anderson
venience I included the short README as an attachment. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany FloX v0.1 Copyright 2006 Sven Anderson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [pmacct-discussion] memory table extraction lossless?

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Anderson
Ciao Paolo, Paolo Lucente, 03.05.2006 16:41: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:28:22PM +0200, Sven Anderson wrote: > >> Is there a case, when using the -r flag, where you don't want locking? Or >> do you mean, that -l could be useful in case of not using -r? > > The lat

Re: [pmacct-discussion] memory table extraction lossless?

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Anderson
6441]: ERROR ( dport/memory ): We are missing data. What should be noted in the docs at least is, that * refers to the sum of all traffic without the -r, and the rest of traffic with the -r flag, as a consequence of the stepwise resetting of the counters. Don't you think so? Cheers, Sven -

[pmacct-discussion] memory table extraction lossless?

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Anderson
ocked as long as the port list is processed. Otherwise packets that arrive during processing with, for example, port 80, would also match the * and got reset, too. Is this handled correctly? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de

[pmacct-discussion] dynamic table names

2006-05-02 Thread Sven Anderson
nserted in the table of the next day, right? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany ___ pmacct-discussi

Re: [pmacct-discussion] pmacct's place in the network... passive host?

2006-04-29 Thread Sven Anderson
27;s it. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany ___ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists

Re: [pmacct-discussion] PostgreSQL performance

2006-04-28 Thread Sven Anderson
Hi all, Sven Anderson, 21.04.2006 21:34: > I think the problem is not the updating of the data itself, but updating > the complex primary key. An index of (ip_src, ip_dst, stamp_inserted) is > fast enough to find entries, and easy enough to maintain. it seems to be known, that a defa

Re: [pmacct-discussion] PostgreSQL performance

2006-04-22 Thread Sven Anderson
stamp_inserted>=2006-04-21 20:17:55 AND stamp_inserted<2006-04-21 21:17:55" fast? I guess a btree index, but maybe there's something better? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goetting

Re: [pmacct-discussion] network port monitoring

2006-04-19 Thread Sven Anderson
flow data defined by certain Flow Key values. Just give me 2 more weeks and I'll release a first version. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany

Re: [pmacct-discussion] PostgreSQL performance

2006-04-10 Thread Sven Anderson
ine is quite weak, with 900MHz PIII CPU, 320MB RAM and a normal IDE hard disk. But with MySQL it was no problem, so I'm just comparing. Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany

[pmacct-discussion] PostgreSQL performance

2006-04-07 Thread Sven Anderson
sh-tables are not indexed correctly? Any ideas? Cheers, Sven -- Sven Anderson Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany