FTWIRE2BRO(8)

🌸 FTWIRE2BRO 🌸

ok so bestie, this is the manual for ftwire2bro from the System Manager's Manual, section 8 (that's the admin/daemon girlies section 💅). Sit down, hydrate, and let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

ftwire2bro — converts NetFlow v5 files in wire format to bro format 🦋

like. that's the whole job. it takes your wire-format NetFlow v5 and turns it into bro format. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ftwire2bro [-e <exporter_ip> [-t <offset>]

ok yes the brackets are lowkey unhinged here but that's literally what the original says so we're keeping it exactly like that, periodt 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so ftwire2bro is a little utility that deals with Bro's custom file format for storing NetFlow records. it's giving very niche, very specialized, very "if you know you know" (iykyk 💅).

what it does: it reads NetFlow wire format — like, the stuff you'd get from a 'flow-export' directive, for example — and then it writes it out in Bro's format. that's it. that's the whole glow-up. it literally just translates between the two formats and slays while doing it ✨

🌈 COMMENTS 🌈

so if you've got a flow-tools file and you're like "bestie how do I even get this into wire format" — easy. you can convert a flow-tools file into wire format with:

flow-export -f 4

boom. now you can feed it to ftwire2bro. the pipeline is pipelining 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

ftwire2bro was written by The Bro Project <info@bro.org>. iconic behavior, honestly.

This manual page was written by Raúl Benencia <rul@kalgan.cc> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to them for documenting this so the rest of us didn't have to guess 💜

so yeah, that's the whole page! 🎀 this one's from the System Manager's Manual, the source is ftwire2bro, version date February 2015 — and the manpage id is FTWIRE2BRO(8) in case you need to cite it in your group chat. go forth and convert those NetFlow records, bestie 💖✨🦋