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Netflows (v9) missing

fbauhaus
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I am running a Catalyst 6504 with sup32 and pfc3b/msfc2a on native IOS 12.2(33)SXI5.

I'm trying to export all netflows as v9 since I have to depend on netflow for IPv6 too.

As collector I'm running nfcapd version 1.6.1.

My problem is that I have some flows that don't show up in the nfcaps but which I can see on the 6504.

core1#sh ip cache flow | incl 22B8
Vl3000           **.***.141.20    Vl3001           **.**.25.7      06 22B8 9402    15K
Vl3000           **.***.141.20    Vl3001           **.**.25.7      06 22B8 D570    20K

These are the two flows I am looking for.

When I look at what got captured there is no trace of these flows.

fbauhaus@sirius:/home/nfdump/nfcap/2010/12/14$ nfdump -r nfcapd.201012141251 -o extended 'host **.**.25.7'

Date flow start          Duration Proto      Src IP Addr:Port          Dst IP Addr:Port   Flags Tos  Packets    Bytes      pps      bps    Bpp Flows

2010-12-14 12:52:18.876     0.000 TCP      **.**.25.7:22    ->   **.***.141.20:34456 .AP...  16        1      116        0        0    116     1

2010-12-14 12:52:18.876     0.000 TCP      **.**.25.7:22    ->   **.***.141.20:34456 .AP...  16        1      116        0        0    116     1

2010-12-14 12:52:23.812     0.000 TCP      **.**.25.7:39566 ->     **.***.141.20:80    ....S.   0        1       60        0        0     60     1

Summary: total flows: 3, total bytes: 292, total packets: 3, avg bps: 473, avg pps: 0, avg bpp: 97

Time window: 2010-12-14 12:52:18 - 2010-12-14 12:52:23

Total flows processed: 326, Blocks skipped: 0, Bytes read: 16980

Sys: 0.000s flows/second: 0.0        Wall: 0.000s flows/second: 516640.3

(I took only this one capture file as example, but it doesn't show up in any other file too.)

Here are the associated parts of the configuration:

ip flow ingress layer2-switched vlan 1,3000-3001
mls netflow interface
mls flow ip interface-full

mls flow ipv6 full

!

interface Vlan1

ip address ***.***.71.26 255.255.255.248

ip access-group 100 in

ip access-group 100 out

no ip redirects

no ip unreachables

no ip proxy-arp

ip flow ingress

ipv6 address ****:****:****:****::/64 eui-64

ipv6 nd ra suppress

!

interface Vlan3000

ip address **.**.24.1 255.255.255.0

no ip redirects

no ip unreachables

no ip proxy-arp

ip flow ingress

ipv6 address ****:****:****:****::/64 eui-64

ipv6 nd ra suppress

!

interface Vlan3001

ip address **.**.25.1 255.255.255.192

ip flow ingress

ipv6 address ****:****:****:****::/64 eui-64

!

ip route **.***.141.0 255.255.255.128 **.**.24.6
!

ip flow-export source Vlan3001
ip flow-export version 9 origin-as bgp-nexthop
ip flow-export destination **.**.25.7 9995

Maybe anyone got an idea what I am missing here.

Best regards

Florian

2 Replies 2

yjdabear
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Perhaps because these flows are active, so they're not due to be exported until they're torn down or the flow export timer expires. If that's the case, you could configure:

ip flow-cache timeout [active minutes | inactive seconds]

to force the flow to be exported.

Here's a good explanation, in which it mentions the default flow-cache timer is 30 mins (though I thought it's 15 mins).

http://www.plixer.com/blog/network-problem-resolution/ip-flow-cache-active-timeout-are-you-using-it/

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that I took the example from the 6504 while they where active but they neither appear in my caps even after the flow is not active anymore. And I even got 'ip flow-cache timeout 1' in my config and just forgot to post it here.

But thank you for your reply.