svn commit: r320944 - head/etc/rc.d

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 15 22:49:31 UTC 2017


  Emmanuel,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:40:18PM +0000, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
E> Author: manu
E> Date: Thu Jul 13 13:40:18 2017
E> New Revision: 320944
E> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/320944
E> 
E> Log:
E>   Add an rc.d script to setup a netflow export via ng_netflow
E>   The default is to export netflow data on localhost on the netflow port.
E>   ngtee is used to have the lowest overhead possible.
E>   The ipfw ng hook is the netflow port (it can only be numeric)
E>   Default is netflow version 5.
E>   
E>   Sponsored-By:   Gandi.net
E>   Reviewed by:	bapt (earlier version), olivier (earlier version)

It could be that using "netgraph" action instead of "ngtee" and then
returning packet back from netgraph to ipfw would show lower overhead.
However, this setup is definitely going to be less robust and more prone
to bugs in case of complex ipfw configurations.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.


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