[netflow-tools] flowd-reader export

Jean-Philippe Luiggi jp.luiggi at free.fr
Sat Mar 25 02:14:37 EST 2006


Hello,

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:47:23PM +1000, Murray Shields wrote:
> 
> Is there any documentation on the export as generated by flowd-reader? 
> For example, what are the possible values and meanings for proto (I know 
> 6 is TCP)? What is the most accurate way of matching bi-directional 
> packets (is it simply a specific port number range)?

About protocols : less /etc/protocols (Unix) or "www.iana.org" 
and for "bi-directional matching": on the server's side, there's one defined
port but from client's point of vue, it's not true.

> Can I simply assume that the LOWER port number is the port, and the 
> higher is for matching?

I'm not sure to understand what do you want to say ?

Best regards.




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