I have just finished reading the following document:

http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/SECURITY

In particular:
"To defend against an attacker injecting bogus flow exports the path
between the router and flow collector must prevent source IP address
spoofing, either with access lists or unicast RPF checks.  Flow-capture
requires the source IP of the exporter to be defined and will count any
packets received from a different IP in the pkts_corrupt counter."

I don't think I saw any way in nfacctd to limit where flows are received from 
(aside from a firewall). Maybe linking against libwrap would be an easy way 
for pmacct to solve this at the application level without any new 
configurations options. (That way users can just drop their cisco router IP 
address into /etc/hosts.allow)

Cheers

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Peter Nixon
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