Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Size of file (ft2nfdump)

2012-06-13 Thread Peter Haag
I assume the difference is in your filter: 'dst net 10.1.1.0/24' flows, which do not pass the filter are discarded. Both commands build an internal flow cache. The first one of all existing flows, where as the second command only those for 'dst net 10.1.1.0/24' This may result in a huge

Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Size of file (ft2nfdump)

2012-06-13 Thread John Elliot
Thanks Peter I assume the difference is in your filter: 'dst net 10.1.1.0/24' flows, which do not pass the filter are discarded. Both commands build an internal flow cache. The first one of all existing flows, where as the second command only those for 'dst net 10.1.1.0/24' This may

Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Size of file (ft2nfdump)

2012-06-11 Thread Peter Haag
Hi John, The resulting file of your command is not compressed. Use -z in order to compress the output. To compress the existing file, run ./nfdump -j netflow_dump.20120606 This should considerably shrink the size. Maybe I should make compression the default, as compatibility to those

[Nfsen-discuss] Size of file (ft2nfdump)

2012-06-07 Thread John Elliot
Hi Guys, Is it normal for the converted file (flow-tools - nfdump) to be a lot larger that the original flow-tools file(s) i.e. Orginal flow-tools files (24hours): /netflow/oar/krc3.v5/2012/2012-06/2012-06-06# du -mh939M. Converted via: flow-cat ft-v05.2012-06-06.* | ft2nfdump | nfdump