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Re: ipfix/netflow/sflow generator for Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Mon Dec 6 14:32:26 2010

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 06:31:41 +1100
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
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On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:15:10PM -0500, Thomas York wrote:
> I've had the best luck with ipcad. The only thing that seems to not work
> with it is that it doesn't correctly give the interface number in the flow
> information. It refers to all interfaces as interface 65535. I've tried the
> config option for ipcad to map an interface directly to an SNMP interface
> ID, but that option of the config file seems to be ignored.
> 
> Ntop functionally does exactly what I need, but it's extremely buggy. It
> segfaults after a few minutes, regardless of Linux distro or Ntop version.
> So..any ideas on what I can do to get good flow information from our Linux
> routers?

Fix ipcad to send the interface number.

- Matt

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