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Re: Multi-collector Netflow/etc

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Krauska)
Thu Jul 18 16:32:44 2002

From: Joel Krauska <jkrauska@gte.net>
To: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207171453550.2645-100000@minot.kruckenberg.com>
Date: 18 Jul 2002 13:24:14 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 14:07, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
> Any other methods that are working for scaling multiple 
> collectors without exceeding router limitations or burdening 
> routers unnecessarily?

flow-tools has flow-fanout which does what you are describing for
netflow.  (replicates arriving flows to many destinations)


man flow-fanout
http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/docs/flow-fanout.html

flow-tools
http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/

flow-tools seems to be a good bet for handling/munging flow data in
general.  

-joel


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