cflowd problems? try flow-tools. (was "Re: Installation Problems")

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Subject: cflowd problems? try flow-tools. (was "Re: Installation Problems")
From: Dave Plonka (plonka@doit.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 09:41:37 CST

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:39:19PM +1100, Leigh Sharpe wrote:
> 
>      I'm having trouble installing Flowscan (First time user). When I try
>    to start cflowdmux or cflowd I get a segmentation error.
>    
>    (System: RedHat 7.0 on 600MHz Pentium w/- 256Mb RAM) Any ideas?

If cflowd causes you pain, my suggestion is to use flow-tools instead.
(It's what I do.) The documentation is sparse (OK, maybe non-existent -
until next FlowScan release) but I've discussed it here:

   http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/list/flowscan/archive/0840.html
   http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/list/flowscan/archive/0848.html

The gist is that you need to do these things:

0) install flow-tools and rebuild and install Cflow, which is supplied
   in the flow-tools release (contrib).

1) Use flow-tools' flow-capture utility (which essentially is a newer
   alternative cflowd/cflowdmux):

   # flow-capture -z0 -N0 -V5 -n287 -w/var/local/flows /10.42.69.1/2055
							^^^^^^^^^^
							exporter/router IP

2) Install the updated "FlowScan.pm" here (revision 1.6 or greater):

  http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/list/flowscan/archive/att-0848/01-FlowScan.pm

3) and configure "flowscan.cf" as described here:

   http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/list/flowscan/archive/0840.html

Dave

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