A Shim tunnel encapsulates netflow payload inside a new UDP session by inserting a shim header ahead of the netflow header which will preserve the router/switch IP address. This is an alternative method when you cannot deploy the other two methods NAT or GRE Tunnel.
Substitute these for your environment
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp –dport 5111 -j ACCEPTThe custom shim tunnel is provided by the netflow-shim-tunnel software running on the gateway node.
Visit https://github.com/trisulnsm/netflow-shim-tunnel/tree/master/binaries and download the binary for your platform.
wget https://github.com/trisulnsm/netflow-shim-tunnel/raw/master/binaries/nfshim.el7
The goal here is to forward all netflow packets received on UDP 5111 to the remote probe 192.168.2.99 on the same 5111 port
chmod +x nfshim.el7 ./nfshim.el7 -D 0.0.0.0:5111 192.168.2.99:5111
chmod +x nfshim.el7 ./nfshim.el7 -D 0.0.0.0:5111 192.168.2.99:5111 10.251.52.4
Ensure you disable the firewall or allow port 5111 through systemctl stop firewalld or firewall-cmd –zone=public –add-port=5111/udp
Set the EnableShimTunnel option in the netflow config file.
vi /usr/local/etc/trisul-probe/domain0/probe0/config0/PI-7CA*
Set or add the following line in the Policy section
<EnableShimTunnel>true</EnableShimTunnel>
Restart Trisul. You should now be able to see the Netflow analysis on the Trisul node with the actual router/switch IP addresses.
In the very unlikely scenario the above steps dont work and the desired source IP is not seen on the outgoing packets, use SNAT (Source NAT).This example NATs the source IP for udp packets to 5111 (custom netflow) to be the Shim end point.
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p udp --dport 5111 \
-o enp7s0 -j SNAT --to 10.251.52.4:5111
iptables -t nat -L -v --line-numbers
iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING 3