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      donoreo
      last edited by

      Nothing.  I tried bge0, bge1, bridge0, nothing.  Diagnostics did the same thing.

      This is really annoying.  I have been trying for weeks now to find something that I can use to track our internet usage and can find…nothing!

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        donoreo
        last edited by

        Should I file a bug report?

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          Unfortunately I can't replicate your issue, it works for me when I set it up.

          It's a little more manual process but you could try softflowd
          http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Exporting_NetFlow_with_softflowd

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            donoreo
            last edited by

            That was going to be my next step.

            You are not testing in Bridge mode though.  That can be considered it's own bug.

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              Actually I am testing in bridge mode as well as normal mode. I get netflow packets either way.

              It does appear that the collector system had to be online before the packets started going though.

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                donoreo
                last edited by

                What were you using as a collector?

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  Nothing at the moment, just sending the packets at a random BSD VM.

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                    donoreo
                    last edited by

                    @jimp:

                    Nothing at the moment, just sending the packets at a random BSD VM.

                    Sorry, I thought you meant the collector software.  I have been sending to my own PC and still nothing.

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                      donoreo
                      last edited by

                      Softlowd is sending packets.

                      One question, the doc says this:

                      Launching softflowd

                      To launch softflowd at boot time, backup your configuration, and above the line, add the following line.
                      <shellcmd>softflowd -i em0 -v 5 -m 50000 -n 10.0.0.100:9999</shellcmd>

                      What file is it referring to?  I am not familiar enough with BSD, more of a Linux guy.

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        Ignore that bit, install the shellcmd package and add it there. It's in the raw config.xml, and the shellcmd package can maintain that entry for you rather than editing the config xml manually.

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                          cmb
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                          The way some applications bind, they don't function entirely correctly with bridging unless the IP they're using is on the bridge itself (which is only supported in 2.0), I suspect that's what you're seeing here. The only thing I've seen to date that has issues in that scenario is nmap but other applications likely have the same issue.

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