Is there a set of open source Netflow Collector C ++ libraries?

Question

I am looking for a set of C ++ libraries to develop my own C ++ daemon on Linux to collect NetFlow information. Does anyone know an open source or library set that is available?

Many thanks

Answer 1

Have you tried Googling? There are many daemons for NetFlow available for Linux and BSD:

• http://www.mindrot.org/projects/softflowd/

• http://fprobe.sourceforge.net/

• http://lionet.info/ipcad/

Answer 2

FWIW - http://code.google.com/p/flowd/ - BSD-, . ( , , ).

Answer 3

For a standalone library, you can try "libipfix". It implements the new IETF IPFIX protocol, but also understands Netflow v9 (which IPFIX is based on). But I don’t think it can handle older versions of Netflow (v1 and v5 are common), so this is probably only useful if your Netflow export devices support Netflow v9.