cflowd design: flowdump

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## 5. flowdump

`flowdump` can read raw flow files or connect to `cflowdmux` and select flows using a simple (and inefficient) filter language. It will check the file to be opened (form the command line); if it's a socket, it assumes we're connecting to `cflowdmux`, else it assumes we're reading a raw flow file from disk. The only real difference here is that in the case of a named socket, we'll need to `connect()` before reading flows.

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