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INPUT_SNMP and OUTPUT_SNMP for non-mirrored interfaces

Open simonemainardi opened this issue 8 years ago • 0 comments
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current behavior:

  • [--in-iface-idx|-u] fills INPUT_SNMP with the last two bytes of the MAC address of the flow sender.
  • [--out-iface-idx|-Q] fills OUTPUT_SNMP with the last two bytes of the MAC address of the flow receiver.

The behavior above is consistent when the nprobe receives mirrored/netflow traffic as well as when the traffic goes through the nProbe host.

When a flow originates at the nProbe host, then INPUT_SNMP and OUTPUT_SNMP should be swapped:

  • OUTPUT_SNMP is the local nProbe host interface used to send out the flow (sender mac address)
  • INPUT_SNMP is the remote interface that will receive the flow (receiver mac address).

simonemainardi avatar Mar 30 '17 21:03 simonemainardi