what would the best way to approach this project be?
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well this is my first post on codeproject, first of all thanks too all that have posted so many good articles in the past that has helped me out greatly. anyways down to the question. i was to create an application that will recieved Cisco Netflow packets (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies\_white\_paper09186a00800a3db9.shtml) and then parse out the data. store the data and then use RRDTool to create pretty little graphs. I have never done socket programming before or really know where to start. If i can aquire the individual pieces of data in those fields then i can dump it to txt files or a database or w/e i please :). i'm pretty sure that i don't want to use raw sockets, and that i want to impliment a socket in the tcp/ip stack itself. I'm relitivily sure i can get the raw data itself, but from there i don't know how to turn the string of jibberish i would get into english. does anyone have any ideas? i'm not asking for a free hand out of code, but just to be pointed in the right direction. thanks.
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well this is my first post on codeproject, first of all thanks too all that have posted so many good articles in the past that has helped me out greatly. anyways down to the question. i was to create an application that will recieved Cisco Netflow packets (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies\_white\_paper09186a00800a3db9.shtml) and then parse out the data. store the data and then use RRDTool to create pretty little graphs. I have never done socket programming before or really know where to start. If i can aquire the individual pieces of data in those fields then i can dump it to txt files or a database or w/e i please :). i'm pretty sure that i don't want to use raw sockets, and that i want to impliment a socket in the tcp/ip stack itself. I'm relitivily sure i can get the raw data itself, but from there i don't know how to turn the string of jibberish i would get into english. does anyone have any ideas? i'm not asking for a free hand out of code, but just to be pointed in the right direction. thanks.
Well, I would suggest to play with socket programming first by simply writing little programs. You could start with examples here on CodeProject. And eventually you will find the right way :) Vitaliy