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    Softflowd not generating flows

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      VeGeTa-X
      last edited by

      Hi, I am trying to send sflow data to my ntop server but it looks like pfsense is not generating below are the files it creates and they are blank also I have added a screenshot of my configs.  I am running latest pfsense install and softflowd software any tips or suggestions would be appreciated. Thx

      wxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1.ctl

      -rw-r–r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em0.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em0.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em0_vlan110.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em0_vlan110.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan120.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan120.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em0_vlan111.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em0_vlan111.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan125.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan125.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan130.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan130.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan15.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan15.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan14.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan14.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan12.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan12.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan13.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.em2_vlan13.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan105.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan105.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan2.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan2.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan100.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re1_vlan100.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re0_vlan999.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.re0_vlan999.pid

      srwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      0 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.lo0.ctl

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      6 Dec 21 05:53 softflowd.lo0.pid


      softflowd[85498]: Accumulated statistics:

      Number of active flows: 0

      Packets processed: 0

      Fragments: 0

      Ignored packets: 0 (0 non-IP, 0 too short)

      Flows expired: 0 (0 forced)

      Flows exported: 0 in 0 packets (0 failures)

      Packets received by libpcap: 3684

      Packets dropped by libpcap: 0

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        CardinS2U
        last edited by

        did you ever get this solved? I'm hitting into the same issue. I got the same settings as yours (different host, Solarwinds NTA)

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