netflow tools - Dec 2006 - softflowd and AS numbers?

Hello everybody

As far as I remember, the netflow protocol should support
the extraction of ASN (autonomous system numbers). If I am
right, it would be nice to integrate softflowd with openbgpd
to deliver the ASN in the exported flows.

I could imagine some sort of lookup via bgpctl read-only socket and
cache the result inside softflowd''s memory structures for further
usage.

Could be something for the TODO list, right?


Regards,
Reto

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Reto Burkhalter wrote:
> Hello everybody
> 
> As far as I remember, the netflow protocol should support
> the extraction of ASN (autonomous system numbers). If I am
> right, it would be nice to integrate softflowd with openbgpd
> to deliver the ASN in the exported flows.
> 
> I could imagine some sort of lookup via bgpctl read-only socket and
> cache the result inside softflowd''s memory structures for further
> usage.
> 
> Could be something for the TODO list, right?
Absolutely - Mathieu Sauve-Frankel is already looking at implementing
it for pfflowd first, and his implementation can be adapted for softflowd.

-d