[flow-tools] New flow-stat design

[Horatio B. Bogbindero]

thanks for the tip. i am going to be working on it in a while. thanks again.

good luck!

Surlignage Mark Fullmer <maf@eng.oar.net>:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:12:27PM +0800, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> > > 
> > > The idea is have flow-stat do the number crunching and export a simple
> > > to parse format then have other front ends written in perl or python
> > > which produce ASCII, HTML, RRD, etc.
> > > 
> > i see. must be some generic and easily parsable format i support. of
> > course, wouldn't it be cool to at least have an HTML frontend part of
> > the distribution already. (as you said probably in python or perl)
> 
> HTML frontends are definately on the radar.  If possible I'd like
> to see FlowScan or a derivative of it to produce RRD style graphs too.
> 
> > that cool. the new flow-stat will save me a great deal of piping.
> basically,
> > i have a PHP frontend that simply calls that series of piped commands
> > and outputs them onto the HTML page. with the new flow-stat it would be
> much
> > cleaner.
> 
> And a lot faster.
> 
> > -ability to breakdown output into shifts (8:00-6:00 and 6:00-8:00 
> > for example). this could probably be done with a time start and
> > time end parameter to the flow-nstat config. i do this using a shell 
> > script and piping the commands and using flow-iptime (the crufty 
> > little thing migz and i wrote). which as you can see is really quite 
> > messy. we have this feature for billing since early morning hours
> > are much cheaper than primetime hours.
> 
> I think you can do this with the new filtering code, ie
> 
> filter-primitive period1
>   type time
>   permit gt 8:00
>   permit lt 18:00
> 
> filter-primitive period2
>   type time
>   permit lt 8:00
>   permit gt 18:00
> 
> filter-definition rate1
>   match start-time period1
> 
> filter-definition rate2
>   match start-time period2
> 
> mark
> 
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