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    Samplicator is a nifty tool. <br>
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    --John<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/25/22 16:50, Compton, Rich A
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Elastiflow
            is pretty cool.  <a href="https://www.elastiflow.com"
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              https://www.elastiflow.com</a>  or the old open source
            version: <a href="https://github.com/robcowart/elastiflow"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
              https://github.com/robcowart/elastiflow</a>  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">You can
            pretty much do the same thing with Elastic’s filebeat (<a
href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-module-netflow.html"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-module-netflow.html</a>).
             <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Pmacct is
            also good for grabbing netflow
            <a href="http://www.pmacct.net" moz-do-not-send="true"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.pmacct.net</a> 
            and sending it somewhere (file, database, kafka, etc.) You
            can also grab BMP and streaming telemetry with it.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If you’re
            looking for open source DDoS detection using netflow, check
            out
            <a href="https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Shameless
            plug, check out my tool to look for spoofed UDP
            amplification request traffic coming into your network
            <a href="https://github.com/racompton/tattle-tale"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/racompton/tattle-tale</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FYI, you can
            send netflow to multiple collectors with
            <a href="https://github.com/sleinen/samplicator"
              moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/sleinen/samplicator</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">-Rich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">NANOG
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nanog-bounces+rich.compton=charter.com@nanog.org"><nanog-bounces+rich.compton=charter.com@nanog.org></a>
              on behalf of David Bass <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davidbass570@gmail.com"><davidbass570@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b>Date: </b>Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 11:06 AM<br>
              <b>To: </b>Christopher Morrow
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:morrowc.lists@gmail.com"><morrowc.lists@gmail.com></a><br>
              <b>Cc: </b>NANOG list <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org"><nanog@nanog.org></a><br>
              <b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and
              analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">Most of these things, yes.  <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">Add:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">Troubleshooting/operational support<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">Customer reporting<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 1:38 PM
                Christopher Morrow <<a
                  href="mailto:morrowc.lists@gmail.com"
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:53
                      AM David Bass <<a
                        href="mailto:davidbass570@gmail.com"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
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                      wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Wondering what others in the
                      small to medium sized networks out there are using
                      these days for netflow data collection, and your
                      opinion on the tool?<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">a question not asked, and
                      answer not provided here, is:<br>
                        "What are you actually trying to do with the
                      netflow?"<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Answers of the form:<br>
                        "Dos detection and mitigation planning"<br>
                        "Discover peering options/opportunities"<br>
                        "billing customers"<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">  "traffic analysis for future
                      network planning"<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">  "abuse
                      monitoring/management/investigations"<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">  "pretty noc graphs"<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">are helpful.. I'm sure other
                      answers would as well.. but: "how do you collect?"
                      is "with a collector" and isn't super helpful if
                      the collector can't feed into the tooling /
                      infrastructure / long-term goal you have.<o:p></o:p></p>
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