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Re: Multi-collector Netflow/etc


From: "Bradley Dunn" <bradley () dunn org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 17:30:43 -0400


Apparently there are a number of packet reflectors (usually
running on a Unix machine) that work in theory, how do these
work in actual practice, what kind of performance and
reliability to they have, and which work well for traffic
collection?

I have had good results with samplicator:
http://www.switch.ch/tf-tant/floma/sw/samplicator/

I haven't had any problems with it handling fairly heavy loads and the CPU
impact is minimal. Under very heavy loads you might want to bump up the
receive buffer (the -b command-line option).

Bradley


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