Use pfflowd to flow tracking on FreeBSD6.1

Andriy Galetski agaletski at ukr.net
Sat Dec 2 14:03:37 PST 2006


Hi.
I have build FreeBSD6.1 kernel with options:

device pf
device pflog
device pfsync

PF filter work ok.
I can monitor data passing through packetfilter using
tcpdump -i pflog0
But I can`t use pfflowd with pfsync to pass stat to netflow collector.

tcpdump -i pfsync0
tcpdump: WARNING: pfsync0: no IPv4 address assigned
tcpdump: unsupported data link type 121

I spend 2 days with reading man and experimens
unfortunately without success.
Runing pfflowd -n host:port -D 
don`t  show me any activity or debugging output. It`s look like
pfflowd don`t get data from pfsync.

In my opinion pfsync kernel part or pfflowd did`t work well
on FreeBSD.
I saw it on OpenBSD it`s work fine.

Do someone successfully run 
pfflowd on FreeBSD6.1-6.2 ?



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