[CentOS] cisco netflow analyzer?

Wed Feb 25 15:25:37 UTC 2009
Scott McClanahan <smcclanahan at forterrainc.com>

> > 
> > i've been pretty impressed with nfsen.  took a little bit of fiddling to 
> > figure out, but lets me drill down into things pretty well.
> 
> Seconded.  nfsen is awesome.  Bit of a learning curve, but extremely
> powerful once you get the hang of it!
> 
> You can also use iptables and the ULOG target to generate "flow"
> information from your Linux boxes and send the output to nfsen/nfcapd
> as well!
> 
> Ray

I'm not trying to hijack this thread but do you find any significant
overhead involved with using the ULOG target or packet loss in your
statistics?  Would you have a ULOG target very early on in your FORWARD
filter to log all packets?  Do those packets go to a ulogd instance and
then to disk (rrd to limit disk usage) for nfsen to use?

I'm concerned with losing packets in my current ntop configuration (not
using pf_ring) and am looking at less obtrusive alternatives like gulp
or ulog to first get ALL of the packets and with as little overhead as
possible move that data to a location where analysis can happen using
ntop or nfsen.  Thanks.