Hello, Paolo, Thank you for your quick reply.
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 19:04:40 +0100 Paolo Lucente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hello Nickola, : to my knowledge the only software NetFlow probe implementing such : feature (importing BGP stuff from a textfile or a Juniper router) : is Luca Deri's nProbe. But nProbe is not for free. Yes, I'm aware of nProbe, and I know that although it's GPL'ed, you have to pay around 80-100 EUR to get the source of the current version. On its web page I found this [1]: Beside this difference (and that ntop cannot return information about ASs, Authonomous Systems, as it is not a router) ntop acts as a software-based NetFlow data export, similar to a real network device such as a router. : An alternate solution is to make the software probe to export just : IP addresses, as usual. Then, insert into the pmacct configuration : the following lines (remember to adapt them in a way that fits for : you): [ cut ] : That's a pretty interesting issue, in my opinion. Let me/us know : how things get evolved ! Well, that sounds great. I'll try it out tomorrow and will let you know how are things going. In your opinion, what hardware will be needed for a PC-based server to support around and more than 100Mbps, probably around 30-35kpackets/s, with libpcap capturing? Does the memcpy libpcap verions perform well? Thank you in advance! [1] http://www.ntop.org/netflow.html Regards, Nickola
