Packet counts?

[sferlin]

Hi,
Packet count is available in the current code:
https://github.com/wanduow/libprotoident/blob/master/tools/protoident/lpi_protoident.cc#L80
however, in_pkts and out_pkts are not written in the log: https://github.com/wanduow/libprotoident/blob/master/tools/protoident/lpi_protoident.cc#L217)
Any particular reasons for that?

[salcock]

The main reason is that, in all cases where we use lpi_protoident, the number of bytes is a much more useful metric than the number of packets.

To avoid cluttering the output, I simply left packets out when writing the output line for each flow.

Of course, you are more than welcome to add the packet counters to the output in your local version. There's no reason why the results wouldn't be correct -- we've just never needed them.