[netflow-tools] softflowctl expire-all

Robin Breathe rbreathe at brookes.ac.uk
Wed Sep 28 19:43:11 EST 2005


Damien,

Below are the results of using flowd-SNAP-20050927
w/flowd-input-buffer.diff along with softflowd-SNAP-20050928 (for
enhanced statistical accuracy):

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# sleep 30
# softflowctl stop-gather
stop-gather
softflowd[16769]: Data collection stopped.
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# softflowctl statistics
statistics
softflowd[16769]: Accumulated statistics:
Number of active flows: 2770
Packets processed: 78026
Fragments: 0
Ignored packets: 23 (23 non-IP, 0 too short)
Flows expired: 0 (0 forced)
Flows exported: 0 in 0 packets (0 failures)
Packets received by libpcap: 78049
Packets dropped by libpacp: 0
Packets dropped by interface: 0

# softflowctl expire-all
expire-all
softflowd[16769]: Expired 2770 flows.
# softflowctl statistics
statistics
softflowd[16769]: Accumulated statistics:
Number of active flows: 0
Packets processed: 78026
Fragments: 0
Ignored packets: 23 (23 non-IP, 0 too short)
Flows expired: 2770 (0 forced)
Flows exported: 2770 in 371 packets (0 failures)
Packets received by libpcap: 78049
Packets dropped by libpacp: 0
Packets dropped by interface: 0

Expired flow statistics:  minimum       average       maximum
  Flow bytes:                  46         15935       2096331
  Flow packets:                 1            28          2802
  Duration:                  0.00s         4.01s        32.79s

Expired flow reasons:
       tcp =         0   tcp.rst =         0   tcp.fin =         0
       udp =         0      icmp =         0   general =         0
   maxlife =         0
  over 2Gb =         0
  maxflows =         0
   flushed =      2770

Per-protocol statistics:     Octets      Packets   Avg Life    Max Life
        Unknown (1):          15674           79       8.36s      31.82s
        Unknown (6):       40366416        67964       3.88s      32.76s
       Unknown (17):        3756178         9970       4.65s      32.79s
       Unknown (41):            884           13       4.72s       6.00s
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There are still an aweful lot of flows getting lost :\

Regards,
Robin
-- 
Robin Breathe, Computer Services, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
rbreathe at brookes.ac.uk       Tel: +44 1865 483685  Fax: +44 1865 483073

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