flow -> web

Sat Feb 4 05:01:42 UTC 2006

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Randy Bush wrote:

> i have a few routers of various flavors spewing netflow data.
> currently i use flowtools, and get text reports via email.
> but they're soooo 20th century.
>
> what will accept flow data from the routers and give me a sexy
> web page or two showing the elephant apps and sites?  has to
> be in freebsd ports tree, as i don't have much time to spend
> on this.

nfsen (http://nfsen.sourceforge.net) and nfdump 
(http://nfdump.sourceforge.net) look like a decent stab at what you 
want.  nfdump is the data collector and nfsen is the sexy-web-page-maker. 
I don't know if it's in the freebsd ports tree though...

jms