[c-nsp] looking for a netflow analyzer

The Father the_father at allstream.net
Fri Oct 6 06:33:23 EDT 2006


Arbor Networks also has a product that does similar things.  It's called 
Peakflow SP but it is a bit pricey.

Jose

nick.nauwelaerts at thomson.com wrote:
> Hello,
> We're looking for a somewhat easy to use netflow analyzer. The issue
> we're trying to solve it that we have a lot of vpn connections which
> include a lot of subnets (some /16's and a lot of /24's) and since
> they're vpns we have limited visibility of what goes through them. So,
> on the last hop before the vpn tunnel broker we're doing a netflow
> export so we can get an idea of what's moving through it.
> Now we need an easy to use frontend for this data, preferably something
> web based. We've tried flowtools with various web addons, but those
> didn't cut it. We tried ntop, it also didn't do what we are looking for.
> We also used plixer scrutinizer, who's custom reports were what we were
> looking for - regretfully those were limited to only 256 hosts which
> doesn't even come close to a /16.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations or other ways to solve this
> problem? We just need a netflow analyzer which allow us to set up groups
> of hosts and have a semi realtime idea of what traffic they are
> producing. Placing a packeteer box in between the vpn tunnel broker &
> router might prove a bit expensive if it's just for visibility.
>
> Thanks.
>
> // nick
>
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