From: jm Date: 2004-05-03T11:57:58+09:00 Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: vflow 0.1 beta Flow-tools is a set of programs and a library used for processing netflow packets from routers and switches. Netflow is a UDP based protocol designed initially by cisco and adopted other network vendors (after deciding it was not worth maintaining their own protocols) to meter network traffic in a more flexible manner that is possible by using SNMP. see http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk812/tech_protocol_home.html http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/ cflow and pyflowtool provide an interface to the flow tools library for their respective language. see http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/Cflow/ http://www.net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~robin/flowtools/ Hope this helps. Jeff. On 03/05/2004, at 12:04 PM, James Britt wrote: > jm wrote: >> Module: vflow >> Version: 0.1b >> Description >> Vflow is a ruby module similar to perl's Cflow and python's >> pyflowtool. > > What are Cflow, pyflowtool, and the flow-tools library? > > > Thanks, > > James > >