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flow-nfilter(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual flow-nfilter(1)

flow-nfilter — Filter flows.

flow-nfilter [-hk] [-b big|little] [-C comment] [-d debug_level] [-f filter_fname] [-F filter_definition] [-v variable binding] [-z z_level]

The flow-nfilter utility will filter flows based on user selectable criteria. Filters are defined in a configuration file and are composed of primitives and a definition. Definitions contain match lines grouped to form logical AND and OR operations on the flow using the selected primitives. A definition may contain the invert command which will invert the result of the evaluation.

Words in the configuration file of the form @VAR or @{VAR:default} will be expanded at run-time by setting variable names with the -v option.

Filter primitives begin with the filter-primitive keyword followed by a symbolic name. Each primitive has a type defined below. A list of permit and or deny keywords followed by an argument are later evaulated to determine if the flow is permitted or denied. The default action for a primitive is to deny which may be changed with the default keyword. Symbolic substitutions are done where appropriate.

The match keyword in a definition selects the criteria to match a primitive. A match type may allow more than one type of primitive, for example the src-ip-addr match type will accept any of {ip-address, ip-address-mask, ip-address-prefix} primitive types.


Primitive type Type Description/Example ------------------------------------------------------------------- as Bucket Autonomous System Number.
600,159,3112 ip-address-prefix-len Numeric Integer from 0 to 32.
16-31 ip-protocol Bucket Integer from 0 to 255.
6,17,1 ip-tos Bucket Integer from 0 to 255 with mask.
0xA0/0xE0 ip-tcp-flags Bucket Integer from 0 to 255 with mask.
0x2/0x2 ifindex Bucket Integer from 0 to 65535
0,5,10 engine Bucket Integer from 0 to 255.
0 ip-port Bucket Integer from 0 to 65535.
80,8080,23,22 ip-address Hash List of IP Addresses.
10.0.0.1 ip-address-mask List List of IP address/mask pairs.
10.1.0.0 255.255.0.0 ip-address-prefix Trie List of IP address/mask pairs.
10.1/16 tag Hash List of tags.
0xFF00 tag-mask List List of tags.
0xF000/0xFF00 counter List List of Integers with qualifier.
lt 32 time List List of relative time specifiers.
gt 5:00 time-date List List of absolute time specifiers.
gt December 12, 2002 5:13:21 double List List of doubles with qualifier.
lt 32.0 rate Element Rate is calculated as 1/rate.
permit 100 Match type Description Primitives accepted ------------------------------------------------------------------- source-as Source AS as destination-as Destination AS as ip-source-address Source IP Address ip-address,
ip-address-mask,
ip-address-prefix ip-destination-address Destination IP Address ip-address,
ip-address-mask,
ip-address-prefix ip-exporter-address Exporter IP Address ip-address,
ip-address-mask,
ip-address-prefix ip-nexthop-address NextHop IP Address ip-address,
ip-address-mask,
ip-address-prefix ip-shortcut-address Shortcut IP Address ip-address,
ip-address-mask,
ip-address-prefix ip-protocol IP Protocol ip-protocol ip-source-address-prefix-len
Source IP address ip-address-prefix-len
prefix length ip-destination-address-prefix-len
Destination IP address ip-address-prefix-len
prefix length
ip-tos IP Type Of Service ip-tos ip-marked-tos IP Type Of Service ip-tos ip-tcp-flags IP/TCP Flags ip-tcp-flags ip-source-port Source IP Port ip-port
eg TCP/UDP ip-destination-port Destination IP Port ip-port
eg TCP/UDP input-interface Source ifIndex ifindex
eg Input Interface output-interface Destination ifIndex ifindex
eg Output Interface start-time Start Time of flow time, time-date end-time End Time of Flow time, time-date flows Number of flows counter octets Number of octets counter packets Number of packets counter duration Duration of flow in ms counter engine-id Engine ID engine engine-type Engine Type engine source-tag Source Tag tag, tag-mask destination-tag Destination Tag tag, tag-mask pps Packets Per Second double bps Bits Per Second double random-sample Random Sample rate

Byte order of output.
Add a comment.
Enable debugging.
Filter list filename. Defaults to /usr/local/etc/flow-tools/filter.
Select the active definition. Defaults to default.
Display help.
Keep time from input.
Set a variable FOO=bar.
Configure compression level to z_level. 0 is disabled (no compression), 9 is highest compression.

time-date parsing is implemented with getdate.y, a commonly used function to process free-form time date specifications. Example usage borrowed from cvs:
1 month ago
2 hours ago
400000 seconds ago
last year
last Monday
yesterday
a fortnight ago
3/31/92 10:00:07 PST
January 23, 1987 10:05pm
22:00 GMT

An example of filter configuration file.


filter-primitive srate
type rate
permit 100 filter-primitive test-as
type as
permit 600,159 filter-primitive test-prefix-len
type ip-address-prefix-len
permit 32 filter-primitive test-protocol
type ip-protocol
permit tcp filter-primitive test-tos
type ip-tos
mask 0xA0
permit 0xE0 filter-primitive test-tcp-flags
type ip-tcp-flags
mask 0x2
permit 0x2 filter-primitive test-ifindex
type ifindex
permit 0,5,10 filter-primitive test-engine
type engine
permit 0 filter-primitive test-port
type ip-port
permit https
permit 80
default deny filter-primitive test-address
type ip-address
permit 0.0.0.1
permit 0.0.0.2
default deny filter-primitive test-address-mask
type ip-address-mask
permit 128.146.197.1 255.255.255.255
permit 128.146.197.2 255.255.255.255 filter-primitive test-prefix
type ip-address-prefix
permit 128.146.0.0/16
default deny filter-primitive test-tag
type tag
permit 0x00
permit 0x01
permit 0xFF filter-primitive test-tag-mask
type tag-mask
permit OSU 0xFF
permit 0xFF 0xFF
default deny filter-primitive test-counter
type counter
permit lt 5
permit gt 10
default deny filter-primitive test-time-date
type time-date
permit gt December 12, 2002 5:13:21 filter-primitive test-time
type time-date
permit gt 12:15:00 filter-definition sample-1-in-100
match random-sample srate filter-definition t1
match engine-type test-engine
or
match destination-tag test-tag-mask

Display all flows with a destination port of 80 or source port of 25 (smtp) starting after Dec 12, 2001. The file test is populated with the following:

filter-primitive port80

type ip-port
permit 80 filter-primitive port25
type ip-port
permit smtp filter-primitive dec12
type time-date
permit gt Dec 12, 2001 filter-definition foo
match ip-source-port port80
match start-time dec12
or
match ip-destination-port port25
match start-time dec12

flow-cat flows | flow-nfilter -ftest -Ffoo | flow-print


Configuration files:
Symbols - /usr/local/etc/flow-tools/*.
Tag - /usr/local/etc/flow-tools/tag.cfg.
Filter - /usr/local/etc/flow-tools/filter.cfg.

None known.

Mark Fullmer maf@splintered.net

flow-tools(1)


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