Hi Paolo,
I definitly need a lightweight solution so it is sflow, and i use 'host
sflow' with ulog to provide flow samples (
http://blog.sflow.com/2010/12/ulog.html ).
i suppose that pmacctd is more accurate because i understand and correct me
that it uses a promiscuous mode. tests are runing on a local machine.
thanks for replying so quickly.


2013/9/9 Paolo Lucente <[email protected]>

> Hi Oussama,
>
> Can you elaborate on your target deployment for billing (ie. sFlow
> or promiscuous mode)? Can you also elaborate on the setup for your
> test? What tool is generating sFlow data being sent to sfacctd? If
> you have control over the host 192.168.42.226: which of the two
> counters looks the most accurate (354000 or 1096303)?
>
> Cheers,
> Paolo
>
> On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 12:05:31PM +0000, oussama sarhraoui wrote:
> >  I'm actually testing pmacct tools for a potential integration into our
> > system to perform billing operations . So it is important for us to get
> the
> > most accurate information from these tools. so i run sfacctd and pmacctd
> on
> > a local machine with host sflow configured with the ULOG facility to
> > collect traffic samples with a sampling rate 1 in 100.
> > i used to following configuration within sfacctd :
> >
> > daemonize: true
> > plugins: memory[ins], memory[outs]
> > interface: eth0
> > sfacctd_ip: 192.168.42.226
> > sfacctd_port: 6343
> > sfacctd_renormalize: true
> > aggregate[ins]: dst_host
> > aggregate_filter[ins]: src net 173.194.0.0/16
> > aggregate[outs]: src_host
> > aggregate_filter[outs]: dst net 173.194.0.0/16
> > imt_path[ins]: /tmp/pmacct_ins.pipe
> > imt_path[outs]: /tmp/pmacct_outs.pipe
> > !
> >
> > and the following for pmacctd :
> >
> > daemonize: true
> > plugins: memory[in], memory[out]
> > interface: eth0
> > aggregate[in]: dst_host
> > aggregate_filter[in]: src net 173.194.0.0/16
> > aggregate[out]: src_host
> > aggregate_filter[out]: dst net 173.194.0.0/16
> > imt_path[in]: /tmp/pmacct_in.pipe
> > imt_path[out]: /tmp/pmacct_out.pipe
> > !
> >
> > the problem is that i found a big difference between these two tools :
> >  sfacctd shows :
> >
> > DST_IP           PACKETS               BYTES
> > 192.168.42.226   1600                  354000
> >
> > and pmacctd shows :
> >
> > DST_IP           PACKETS               BYTES
> > 192.168.42.226   1718                  1096303
> >
> > thanks for any remarque or suggestion and for help :)
> >
> > cheers.
> >
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