RES: flow-tools rather than cflowd (was "Re: [Cflowd] Re: Still having trouble installing")

Ricardo Bernardo dos Santos rbsantos at infovias.com.br
Wed Jun 11 13:17:01 PDT 2003


Dave,

Thank you for yours suggestions.

I'll try to use flow-tools and run FlowScan on those flow files. 
I really intend to do only this now. 

TIA.

Ricardo.

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Dave Plonka [mailto:plonka at doit.wisc.edu] 
Enviada em: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:44 AM
Para: cflowd at caida.org
Cc: alex at nac.net; Ricardo Bernardo dos Santos
Assunto: flow-tools rather than cflowd (was "Re: [Cflowd] Re: Still
having trouble installing")


On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:05:58AM -0300, Ricardo Bernardo dos Santos
wrote:
> 
>    I'm having the same problem with solaris 9.:-(.
>    
>    Anyone already solve this problem?
>    
>    I need compile cflowd because I'll be using FlowScan and I need to
>    apply patch.

Ricardo,

If your intent in setting up cflowd is just to get the flows recorded to
files or to run FlowScan and other analyses on those flow files, I
suggest using flow-tools instead:

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

There is a link labeled "Tips on configuring FlowScan with flow-tools.",
near the bottom of the page at that URL, on how to use flow-capture
(which is the flow-tools collection daemon) with FlowScan as a drop-in
replacement for cflowd:

   http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/list/flowscan/archive/1117.html

flow-tools is currently maintained and builds clean on lots of platforms
including Solaris.

Both flow-tools and FlowScan have support mailing lists and archives
linked from their respective "home" pages:

   http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/
   http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/FlowScan/

Dave

P.S. Note that the FlowScan installation instructions have not been
updated proper.  For the time-being, posts in the mailing list archive
are serving as documentation for how to use FlowScan with flow-tools and
argus.

P.P.S.  flow-tools has lots of reports.  See flow-stat and flow-report:

   http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/docs/flow-stat.html
   http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/docs/flow-report.html

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