Peter,

My sincere and profuse thanks.

I was blithely assuming that, since tcpdump could see the incoming packets,
they must not be blocked by iptables.

I am an idiot.

One new rule in iptables took care of it.

- Andy



On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Peter Haag <[email protected]> wrote:

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> > I've had a collection and analysis sytem based on flow-tools for years
> now,
> > but for the six months or so, I've been using ft2nfdump and nfdump for
> > analysis of the collected flow data and I'm completely sold.  I want to
> > switch over to nfcapd a skip the ft2nfdump step and then try Nfsen out.
> >
> > Currently, I'm getting Netflow data from one router.  It's sending the
> data
> > to two systems.  The older system is an old Solaris box running
> > flow-capture.  The newer system is RHEL5 where I'm trying to run nfcapd.
>  I
> > can't get the nfcapd service to collect packets.  It's the same flow as
> the
> > flow-capture system sees and I've captured the incoming Netflow data from
> > the router on both systems and verified that the packets match.  Nfcapd
> > starts, but doesn't appear to see anything.
> >
> >
> > The system has two network interfaces, eth0 and eth1.  Eth0 is on the
> subnet
> > with the router.  Eth1 is behind a NAT looking at somethine else.
> > The IP on eth0 is (munged) router.subnet.aaa.bbb.  The router is
> directing
> > netflow data to port 9990 (confirmed using tcpdump).
> >
> > I'm nfcapd with the command:
> >
> > nfcapd -z -b router.subnet.aaa.bbb -p 9990 -l /var/NetFlow -I any -S 2
>  -w
> > -e -P /var/NetFlow/nfcapd.pid  -D
>
> yes - that's all correct. Any SE-Linux - firewall rules somewhere?
>
> For testing: ommit -D and add -E
>
>        - Peter
> >
> >
> > The pid file is created and the default subdirectory structure appears
> under
> > /var/NetFlow, but nothing is entered.
> >
> >
> > Am I submitting the command incorrectly?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > - Andy Johnston
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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