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traffic flow in router os

Thu Aug 25, 2022 12:52 pm

hello for all my friends in this forum...!
please anyone know what is the benefit of the traffic flow sub menu..? -ip..traffic flow...
so when and where we can use this feature and what is the benefit that we can obtain using this feature...?
 
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Re: traffic flow in router os  [SOLVED]

Thu Aug 25, 2022 1:28 pm

You can use this to provide data to your Netflow collector and obtain statistics on the traffic that flows through your Mikrotik.
Google "Netflow" and learn a bit about the concept, versions (v5,v9,IPFIX etc.)

When you have a "collector" configured somewhere on a machine on your LAN, you could get stats like this.
You need to define from which interfaces on you Mikrotik you want to capture flows (eg. only your Internet-out or also internal LAN interfaces etc)
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Re: traffic flow in router os

Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:44 pm

Wow, I like colour graphs, how did you do that?
 
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Re: traffic flow in router os

Thu Aug 25, 2022 6:09 pm

Wow, I like colour graphs, how did you do that?
I use (free) Splunk with @Jotne fine Mikrotik application/dashboard.
In addition, Splunk has an embedded Netflow receiver too so I use that.

Then on github, I have found 2 "dashboards" that creates these graphs from the data that is collected.
Nothing very fancy, but it gives me an idea on some traffic patterns etc.

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