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flow-receive(1) 	     General Commands Manual		 flow-receive(1)

NAME
     flow-receive -- Receive flow data with the NetFlow protocol.

SYNOPSIS
     flow-receive  [-h]   [-b  big|little]   [-C comment]  [-d debug_level]  [-o
     output_file]   [-S  stat_interval]   [-V  pdu_version]   [-z  z_level]  lo-
     calip/remoteip/port

DESCRIPTION
     The  flow-receive utility is used to receive flows in NetFlow format.  When
     the remoteip is configured only flows from that exporter will be processed,
     this is the most secure and recommended configuration.  When the localip is
     configured flow-receive will only process flows sent to the  localip IP ad-
     dress.  If remoteip is 0 (not configured) flows from any source IP  address
     are accepted.  Multiple non aggregated PDU versions may be accepted at once
     to  support Cisco's Catalyst 6500 NetFlow implementation which exports from
     both the supervisor and MSFC with the same IP address  and  same  port  but
     different	export versions.  In this case the exports will be stored in the
     format specified by the -V flag or whichever export type is received first.

OPTIONS
     -b big|little
	       Byte order of output.

     -C CommentAdd a comment.

     -d debug_level
	       Enable debugging.

     -h        Display help.

     -o file   Write to file instead of the standard out.

     -S stat_interval
	       When configured flow-receive will emit a timestamped  message  on
	       stderr  every  stat_interval  minutes indicating counters such as
	       the number of flows received, packets processed, and lost flows.

     -V pdu_version
	       Use pdu_version format output.

	 1    NetFlow version 1 (No sequence numbers, AS, or mask)
	 5    NetFlow version 5
	 6    NetFlow version 6 (5+ Encapsulation size)
	 7    NetFlow version 7 (Catalyst switches)
	 8.1  NetFlow AS Aggregation
	 8.2  NetFlow Proto Port Aggregation
	 8.3  NetFlow Source Prefix Aggregation
	 8.4  NetFlow Destination Prefix Aggregation
	 8.5  NetFlow Prefix Aggregation
	 8.6  NetFlow Destination (Catalyst switches)
	 8.7  NetFlow Source Destination (Catalyst switches)
	 8.8  NetFlow Full Flow (Catalyst switches)
	 8.9  NetFlow ToS AS Aggregation
	 8.10 NetFlow ToS Proto Port Aggregation
	 8.11 NetFlow ToS Source Prefix Aggregation
	 8.12 NetFlow ToS Destination Prefix Aggregation
	 8.13 NetFlow ToS Prefix Aggregation
	 8.14 NetFlow ToS Prefix Port Aggregation
	 1005 Flow-Tools tagged version 5

     -z z_levelConfigure compression level to  z_level.  0 is disabled (no  com-
	       pression), 9 is highest compression.

EXAMPLES
     Listen  on  port  9800  on  any local interface for exports from IP address
     10.0.0.1, store the exports in flows

       flow-receive 0/10.0.0.1/9800 > flows

     Listen on port 9800 on any local interface from any IP address, display the
     received flows with flow-print.

       flow-receive 0/0/9800 | flow-print

BUGS
     It is not currently possible to  convert  between	the  aggregated  formats
     (8.x) and the non aggregated formats (1,5,6,7).

AUTHOR
     Mark Fullmer maf@splintered.net

SEE ALSO
     flow-tools(1)

								 flow-receive(1)

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