Thanks.  My COTS vendor will do the forwarding, but at an additional
cost.  The fanout component seemed simple enough that I hoped I could
offload it to a VM running open-source software.  Sounds like
flow-tools aren't the way to go for this requirement.  Thanks for the
pointer to samplicator.  I also received private email suggesting
CMU's "SiLK".

- Morty


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:54:10PM -0500, Craig Weinhold wrote:
> flow-fanout does manipulate the packets, which is why you must specify the 
> output PDU version. It won't work with V9/IPFIX.
> 
> For open source, use samplicator which truly is packet agnostic.
> 
> Many commercial packages also have their own UDP forwarding feature. E.g., 
> NetScout forwards v5 and v9 just fine.
> 
> -Craig
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Morty wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking to fanout/replicate some netflow data.  Right now we have
> > no v9 or IPFIX, so flow-fanout would work great.  But we're looking
> > near-term to do v9 and/or IPFIX.  I know the current flow-tools
> > doesn't support v9 or IPFIX, so we already bought a COTS product to
> > accomodate the future v9/IPFIX requirement.  Question: since
> > flow-fanout is just replicating netflow packets, should even old
> > versions work with v9/IPFIX?  Or do we need to buy a COTS product for
> > that, too?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > - Morty
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