[j-nsp] cflowd Export Issue

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Tue Oct 2 08:05:17 EDT 2007


On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:46:52AM -0400, Jeff Aitken wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:58:38PM +0800, Mark Tinka wrote:
> >     Can not configure more than one cflowd v5 collector
> > Any workaround?
> 
> The common workaround to this problem is to feed your netflow data to a
> single collector that is capable of replicating the data as needed.  Arbor
> does this and I'd be surprised if most of the other commercial packages
> didn't also.  Alternatively, you can look at flow-tools:
> 
>     http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/
> 
> which seems to have this functionality (although I haven't used it personally).

	Correct, you can use flow-fanout to perform this action.

	I had toyed at one point with using a multicast export, which would
be the ideal way in some cases to replicate the data.  Seems it would be an
easy solution if you have multicast enabled.

	- jared

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