Re: [Jkflow-users] measured traffic differs from other tools, am i missing something?

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Subject: Re: [Jkflow-users] measured traffic differs from other tools, am i missing something?
From: jurgen kobierczynski (jurgen.kobierczynski@pandora.be)
Date: Wed Apr 20 2005 - 17:03:37 CDT

Just a lucky guess: Is it possible that this discrepancy between cricket and
netflow monitored traffic is caused by mpls switched traffic not reported by
Netflow?

Jurgen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gustavo Rodrigues Ramos" <gustavo@acmesecurity.org>
To: "Sven Juergensen" <sjuergensen@tng.de>
Cc: <jkflow-users@lists.sourceforge.net>; <flowscan@net.doit.wisc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Jkflow-users] measured traffic differs from other tools, am i
missing something?


> Hi all,
>
> It seens to me that there is some kind of "problem" inside flowscan and
> not in any module (CUflow, CamposIO or JKFlow) itself.
>
> I'm copying this message to flowscan mailing-list. I hope they would
> explain this much better (sorry about the cross-posting).
>
> Regards,
> Gustavo.
>
>
> Sven Juergensen wrote:
> > hi people,
> >
> > on my quest for an adequate opensource netflow graphing/analyzing
> > tool i stumbled across jkflow. so far so good, i think i got the
> > configuration part down, but for some reason the graphs this module
> > produces don't fit those created by cricket. here's the situation:
> >
> > 2 redundant core routers, several border routers located in germany,
> > amsterdam and vienna. all of them talking to each other via bgp. the
> > core routers have several networks connected to them and effectively
> > eight different subnets would be considered local here, all of them
> > could 'pass' this router.
> >
> > only one of the core routers is exporting netflows as of now.
> >
> > here's my simple configuration to measure the traffic that's for
> > the 'internet' or 0.0.0.0/0 destination.
> >
> > http://nopaste.php-q.net/128728
> >
> > two of the atm-subinterfaces on that router are connected different
> > locations in germany each and carry all the traffic intended for the
> > internet, so it could go through either of them.
> >
> > now the question is:
> >
> > the measured traffic is less than what cricket (another rrd-frontend)
> > is displaying. not by a whole lot but about 2-3 mbit/s per direction
> > seems to be missing.
> >
> > am i doing something wrong here, like misunderstanding a basic netflow
> > concept or are those discrepancies considered normal because of neither
> > method being entirely accurate?
> >
> > any help would be appreciated, i'm out of ideas pretty much. fiddled
> > around with the 'all localsubnets' and also the two subinterfaces by
> > index only but regardless of those changes, the traffic doesn't seem to
> > be equal to the cricket value.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > sven
> >
> >
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