Nprobe is not able to read the 802.1ah header infront of a 802.1q tag.
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Description
ntop see the sflow headers, but the 802.1ah header proceed the 802.1q header, and appears to keep us from seeing the flow data.
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Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the reported packet layout with an 802.1ah header before an 802.1q tag and inspect nProbe's packet parsing path; done means the flow data is recognized despite the header order.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100