[netflow-tools] Why flowd

[Damien Miller]

Justin Pietsch wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've just discovered flowd and I have to ask why does flowd exist when
> there already is flow-tools. What does it do that cannot be done or is
> hard with flow-tools?

I haven't used flow-tools, I wrote flowd because I needed some
particular features for a client (in particular, the fast front-end
filtering that flowd does). Fortunately I was able to release it
under a free license.

-d