fflowmon-1.0.0 Release Notes

1   Introduction

The release notes for Flexible FlowMon fflowmon-1.0.0 package contains a summary of the features of this package.

fflowmon-1.0.0 package is available at 'http://www.liberouter.org/clients/'. Process of installing this package is described in README file inside the package. Flexible FlowMon is a high speed NetFlow/IPFIX-capable passive networking monitoring probe. Up-to-date information about Flexible FlowMon project can be found at 'http://www.liberouter.org/' in the FFlowMon section.

2   What's new

Flexible FlowMon 1.0.0 is the first release distribution of Flexible FlowMon. The target platform is COMBO6X base card with COMBO-2XFP2 as the interface card.

We have improved our documentation, so basic information needed for successful package installation can be found in the README file. On the other side, more detailed information can be found in new Flexible FlowMon Handbook installed in /usr/share/fflowmon/fflowmon-handbook/ directory or online at 'http://www.liberouter.org/fflowmon/handbook.html'

2.1   Hardware (firmware)

  • Support for fast DMA transfers - szedata2
  • Monitoring of a 10 Gbps port
  • Precise timestamps, active and inactive timeouts
  • Input sampling
  • Repeater ports

2.2   Software

  • New package system using RPMs
  • Software rewritten to support new hardware
  • Export in NetFlow version 5, NetFlow version 9 and IPFIX format
  • Exporting to more collectors at the same time
  • Anonymization and per collector filtering