What other uses can cflowd be applied to?
Other areas where cflowd may prove useful include usage tracking for Web hosting, accounting and billing, developing user profiles, and data warehousing and mining. The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Pacific Institute for Computer Security (PICS) is also collaborating with CAIDA on the development of scripts using cflowd to assist in monitoring network activity throughout an enclave (e.g. identifying hosts running httpd) and for low-bandwidth scanning activities. Q: Can confidence intervals be applied to flow-export data (and cflowd analyses) for billing applications? A: You can calculate a rough confidence interval from flow-export data, since it contains sequence numbers. The root of the problem with the sequence numbers today is that they don’t tell you the significance of the flow data you missed. They could have been big flows (a lot of packets and bytes), the flow-export sequence number doesn’t tell you. In most cases, you should just make sure you’re not missing a significant
