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NAME
flowdumper - a grep(1)-like utility for raw flow files
SYNOPSIS
flowdumper [-h] [-v] [-s|S|r|R] [-a|n] [[-I expr] -e expr [-E expr]] [-c] [-B file] [-o output_file] [flow_file [...]]
but usually just:
flowdumper [-s] -e expr flow_file [...]
DESCRIPTION
flowdumper is a grep(1)-like utility for selecting and processing flows from cflowd or flow-tools raw
flow files. The selection criteria are specified by using the "-e" option described below.
flowdumper's primary features are the ability to:
• Print the content of raw flow files in one of two built-in formats or a format of the users own. The
built-in "long" format is much like that produced by the flowdump command supplied with cflowd. The
"short", single-line format is suitable for subsequent post-processing by line-oriented filters like
sed(1).
• Act as a filter, reading raw flow input from either file(s) or standard input, and producing filtered
raw flow output on standard output. This is similar to how grep(1) is often used on text files.
• Select flows according to practically any criteria that can be expressed in perl syntax.
The "flow variables" and other symbols available for use in the "-e" expression are those made available
by the Cflow module when used like this:
use Cflow qw(:flowvars :tcpflags :icmptypes :icmpcodes);
See the Cflow perl documentation for full details on these values (i.e. "perldoc Cflow".)
Most perl syntax is allowed in the expressions specified with the "-e", "-I", and "-E" options. See the
perl man pages for full details on operators ("man perlop") and functions ("man perlfunc") available for
use in those expressions.
If run with no arguments, filters standard input to standard output.
The options and their arguments, roughly in order of usefulness, are:
"-h"
shows the usage information
mnemonic: 'h'elp
"-a"
print all flows
implied if "-e" is not specified
mnemonic: 'a'll
"-e" expr
evaluate this expression once per flow
mnemonic: 'e'xpression
"-c"
print number of flows matched in input
mnemonic: 'c'ount
"-s"
print flows in short (one-line) format, ignored with "-n"
mnemonic: 's'hort
"-r"
print flows in the raw/binary flow file format
ignored with "-n"
mnemonic: 'r'aw
"-R"
"repacks" and print flows in the raw/binary flow file format
requires "-e", ignored with "-n", useful with "-p"
mnemonic: 'R'epack raw
"-n"
don't print matching flows
mnemonic: like "perl "-n"" or "sed "-n""
"-o" output_file
send output to the specified file. A single printf(3) string conversion specifier can be used within
the output_file value (such as "/tmp/%s.txt") to make the output file name a function of the input
file basename.
mneomic: 'o'utput file
"-S"
print flows in the "old" short (one-line) format
ignored with "-n"
mnemonic: 'S'hort
"-v"
be verbose with messages
mnemonic: 'v'erbose
"-V"
be very verbose with messages (implies ""-v"")
mnemonic: 'V'ery verbose
"-I" expr
eval expression initially, before flow processing
practically useless without "-e"
mnemonic: 'I'nitial expression
"-E" expr
eval expression after flow processing is complete
practically useless without "-e"
mnemonic: 'E'ND expression
"-B" file
Load the specified BGP dump file using Net::ParseRouteTable.
In your optional expression, you can now refer to these variables:
$dst_as_path_arrayref
$dst_origin_as
$dst_peer_as
$src_as_path_arrayref
$src_origin_as
$src_peer_as
which will cause a lookup. Their values are undefined if the lookup fails.
mnemonic: 'B'GP dump file
"-p" prefix_mappings_file
read file containing IPv4 prefix mappings in this format (one per line):
10.42.69.0/24 -> 10.69.42.0/24
...
When specifying this option, you can, and should at some point, call the ENCODE subroutine in your
expressions to have it encode the IP address flowvars such as $Cflow::exporter, $Cflow::srcaddr,
$Cflow::dstaddr, and $Cflow::nexthop.
mnemonic: 'p'refixes
EXAMPLES
Print all flows, in a multi-line format, to a pager:
$ flowdumper -a flows.* |less
Print all the UDP flows to another file using the raw binary flow format:
$ flowdumper -re '17 == $protocol' flows.current > udp_flows.current
Print all TCP flows which have the SYN bit set in the TCP flags:
$ flowdumper -se '6 == $protocol && ($TH_SYN & $tcp_flags)' flows.*
Print the first 10 flows to another file using the raw binary flow format:
$ flowdumper -I '$n = 10' -re '$n-- or exit' flows.*0 > head.cflow
Print all flows with the start and end time using a two-line format:
$ flowdumper -se 'print scalar(localtime($startime)), "\n"' flows.*
Print all flows with the specified source address using a short, single-line format:
$ flowdumper -se '"10.42.42.42" eq $srcip' flows.*
Do the same thing in a quicker, but less obvious, way:
$ flowdumper -I '
use Socket;
$addr = unpack("N", Socket::inet_aton("10.42.42.42"));
' -se '$addr == $srcaddr' flows.*
(This latter method runs quicker because inet_aton(3) is only called once, instead of once per flow.)
Print all flows with a source address within the specifed network/subnet:
$ flowdumper \
-I 'use Socket;
$mask = unpack("N", Socket::inet_aton("10.42.0.0"));
$width = 16' \
-se '$mask == ((0xffffffff << (32-$width)) & $srcaddr)' flows.*
Print all flows where either the source or the destination address, but not both, is within the specified
set of networks or subnets:
$ flowdumper \
-I 'use Net::Patricia;
$pt = Net::Patricia->new;
map { $pt->add_string($_, 1) } qw( 10.42.0.0/16
10.69.0.0/16 )' \
-se '1 == ($pt->match_integer($srcaddr) +
$pt->match_integer($dstaddr))' flows.*
Count the total number of "talkers" (unique source host addresses) by piping them to sort(1) and wc(1) to
count them:
$ flowdumper \
-I 'use Net::Patricia;
$pt = Net::Patricia->new;
map { $pt->add_string($_, 1) } qw( 10.42.0.0/16
10.69.0.0/16 )' \
-ne '$pt->match_integer($srcaddr) and print "$srcip\n"' flows.* \
|sort -u |wc -l
Count the total number of "talkers" (unique source host addresses) that are within a the specified
networks or subnets:
$ flowdumper \
-I 'use Net::Patricia;
$pt = new Net::Patricia;
map { $pt->add_string($_, 1) } qw( 10.42.0.0/16
10.69.0.0/16 );
$talkers = new Net::Patricia' \
-ne '$pt->match_integer($srcaddr) &&
($talkers->match_integer($srcaddr) or
$talkers->add_string($srcip, 1))' \
-E 'printf("%d\n", $talkers->climb( sub { 1 } ))' flows.*
(For large numbers of flows, this latter method is quicker because it populates a Net::Patricia trie with
the unique addresses and counts the resulting nodes rather than having to print them to standard output
and then having to sort them to determine how many are unique.)
Select the TCP flows and "ENCODE" the IP addresses according to the prefix encodings specified in
"prefix_encodings.txt":
$ flowdumper -p prefix_encodings.txt -se '6 == $protocol && ENCODE'
Produce a new raw flow file with the IP addresses ENCODEd according to the prefix encodings specified in
"prefix_encodings.txt":
$ flowdumper -p prefix_encodings.txt -Re 'ENCODE' flows > flows.enc
Produce a set of raw flow files that have the $src_as and $dst_as origin AS values filled in based upon a
lookup in externally-specified routing table (in the file "router.bgp") and have the IP address info
replaces with zeroes (for anonymity):
$ ssh router "show route protocol bgp terse" > router.bgp # Juniper
$ flowdumper \
-B router.bgp \
-e '$src_as = $src_origin_as,
$dst_as = $dst_origin_as,
(($exporter = 0),
($srcaddr = 0),
($src_mask = 0),
($dstaddr = 0),
($dst_mask = 0),
($nexthop = 0), 1)' \
-R \
-o /tmp/%s.cflow_enc \
flows*
NOTES
This utility was inspired by Daniel McRobb's flowdump utility which is supplied with cflowd. flowdumper
was originally written as merely a sample of what can be done with the Cflow perl module, but has since
been developed into a more complete tool.
BUGS
When using the "-B" option, routing table entries that contain AS sets at the end of the AS path are
quietly discarded. (It's not so quiet if you also specified "-V".) It was necessary to discard these,
because I did not consider AS sets when designing the API and therefore have no way to communicate more
than one origin AS value per for a single source or destination IP address.
There are perhaps some pathological combinations of options that currently do not produce usage error
messages, but should.
Since the expression syntax is that of perl itself, there are lots of useless expressions that will
happily be accepted without complaint. This is particular troublesome when trying to track down typos,
for instance, with the flow variable names.
This script probably has the same bugs as the Cflow module, since it's based upon it.
AUTHOR
Dave Plonka <plonka@doit.wisc.edu>
Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Dave Plonka. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
SEE ALSO
perl(1), Socket, Net::Netmask, Net::Patricia, Cflow.
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