[netflow-tools] Flowd-0.9 Python Library Problem

[Jesse Kempf]

On Sep 17, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Damien Miller wrote:

> Are you trying to parse netflow records directly with the flowd Python
> module?

Well, yes.

> That won't work - the Python module is to read logs written by
> flowd. flowd writes its own NetFlow version independant log format.

That would certainly explain why things weren't working properly.

> I agree that a making a lightweight NetFlow parser library out of  
> flowd's
> guts would be a good thing though :)

I find myself wondering whether it would be better from a system  
building perspective to build this thing as a backend for flowd by  
way of the Unix domain socket export, or actually break down and make  
a libnetflow and then create a python wrapper around it.

Cheers,
-Jesse Kempf



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