June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 18m
English
Flow-tools also includes filters that can be configured on the command line, which can be useful for very simple filters, such as identifying traffic from a particular IP address. The default filters that use these are fairly limited, but they'll suffice for simple traffic analysis. It's also easy to write your own variable-driven reports.
The filters that are configurable on the command line use three variables: ADDR (address), PORT (port), and PROT (protocol). These support five reports, letting you filter by protocol as well as by source and destination address and port: ip-src-addr, ip-dst-addr, ip-src-port, ip-dest-port, and ip-prot.
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