argus-2.0.0Q, RA clients that buffer and dump data.

Chas DiFatta chas at freeworks.com
Tue Jan 16 12:46:01 EST 2001


Chris,

For 10 sec, just do a,

	ra -ncS localhost -T 10

Chas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> [mailto:owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Chris Newton
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:30 AM
> To: Argus (E-mail); carter at qosient.com
> Subject: RE: argus-2.0.0Q, RA clients that buffer and dump data.
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>   I was wondering if ra could be made (I don't think it does this
> currently),
> to read from a remote argus server, or file, and buffer it's output for a
> specified time period.
>
>   Basically, I have an application for argus (I am currently
> using another
> flow generation software, that has fallen from active
> development, and so I
> wish to discontinue it's use), where I need the client that reads
> from the
> server, to burst it's output on an interval.  IE:  ra -burst 10,
> would cause
> ra to read from the server for 10 seconds, and then dump the
> output to stdout,
> instead of it's current behavior of automatically dumping to stdout, all
> stream it reads from the argus server/file.
>
>   Is this doable with the way ra is currently architected?  If
> you haven't
> guessed, I'm no C programmer, unfortunatly.
>
>   Or, does anyone know of a program that is designed to buffer,
> like I mention
> above, that I can simply dump ra output into continously?  Something like:
>
>   ra {parameters} | buffer -burst 10
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Chris
>
>
> >===== Original Message From <carter at qosient.com> =====
> >Gentle people,
> >   Argus-2.0.0Q is now available.
> >ftp://qosient.com/dev/argus/argus-2.0/argus-2.0.0Q.tar.gz
> >This release has a minor change to argus to tag IPX SAP
> >transactions with the correct ethernet type.  Other changes
> >have been format or cosmetic. Not a major modification
> >to argus.
> >
> >The majority of the work in this release is in docs and
> >man pages.  The FAQ has some new diagrams and the man1
> >pages have some improvements, particularly ra.1, rasort.1,
> >and rapath.1.
> >
> >Please use this version for all testing.
> >
> >Unless we get a bug report on argus this week, argus
> >server software is now frozen.  Client software is now
> >the focus of all last effort development.
> >
> >Thanks for all the testing!!!!!
> >
> >Carter
> >
> >
> >Carter Bullard
> >QoSient, LLC
> >300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
> >New York, New York  10022
> >
> >carter at qosient.com
> >Phone +1 212 813-9426
> >Fax   +1 212 813-9426
>
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>
> Chris Newton, Systems Analyst
> Computing Services, University of New Brunswick
> newton at unb.ca 506-447-3212(voice) 506-453-3590(fax)
>



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