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Network Flow Analysis
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Network Flow Analysis

by Michael W. Lucas
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 18m
English
No Starch Press
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Flow-Tools and Its Prerequisites

Flow-tools is the standard freely available flow management and analysis tool kit. Although you can find many other tools for flow management, flow-tools has been around for the longest time and is the most widely deployed free toolkit. Many people have written flow analysis interfaces based on flow-tools, and I'll cover several of them in this book.

Flow-tools is written for Unix-like systems such as Linux, OpenSolaris, various BSDs, commercial options such as AIX, and many others. My reference platform is FreeBSD, but everything in this book also works on Linux. You might have difficulties using more challenging or unique platforms. This book provides examples of the commands for the flow management tools, but ...

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