ccfilter(3)

NAME
ccfilter - Mapping IPv4 addresses to country codes

SYNOPSIS
  rwfilter [--scc=COUNTRY_CODES] [--dcc=COUNTRY_CODES] ...

  rwcut --fields=scc,dcc ...

  rwgroup --id-fields=scc,dcc ...

  rwsort --fields=scc,dcc ...

  rwstats --fields=scc,dcc ...

  rwuniq --fields=scc,dcc ...

  rwip2cc ...

DESCRIPTION
The country code mapping file provides a mapping from an IPv4 address to two-letter, lowercase abbreviation of the country where that IP address is located. The mapping file allows the country code value of IP addresses on a SiLK Flow record to be partitioned (rwfilter(1)), displayed (rwcut(1)), sorted (rwsort(1)), grouped (rwgroup(1)), and counted (rwstats(1) and rwuniq(1)).

The rwip2cc(1) tool accepts textual input and prints the country code for the IPs, which provide a way to print country codes for the IPs in SiLK IPsets or bags.

The abbreviations used by the country code utility are those used by the Root-Zone Whois Index (see for example http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm <http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm>) or one of the following special codes:

--  N/A (e.g. private and experimental reserved addresses)

a1  anonymous proxy

a2  satellite provider

o1  other

The SiLK tools look for the country code mapping file in a standard location as detailed in the "FILES" section below. To provide an alternate location, specify that location in the SILK_COUNTRY_CODES environment variable.

Creating the Prefix Map (pamp) file that maps an IP to its country code requires the GeoIP Country(R) or free GeoLite database created by MaxMind, available from <http://www.maxmind.com>, as described in the "MAPPING FILE" section below.

OPTIONS
Country code support makes available two additional keys to the --fields switch in the rwcut(1), group(1), rwsort(1), rwstats(1), and rwuniq(1) tools:

scc,18
    Print, sort, and/or count the flow records by the country code designation of the source IP address

dcc,19
    As scc for the destination address

In rwfilter(1), the following switches are supported:

--scc=COUNTRY_CODE_LIST
    Pass the record if the country code of its source IP address is in the specified COUNTRY_CODE_LIST.

--dcc=COUNTRY_CODE_LIST
    As --scc for the destination IP address.

MAPPING FILE
To map from IP addresses to country codes you will need to create the country_codes.pmap data file and install it in the appropriate location (see the "FILES" section below), or specify the path to the file in the SILK_COUNTRY_CODES environment variable.

The prefix map data file is based on the GeoIP Country(R) or free GeoLite database created by MaxMind and available from <http://www.maxmind.com/>. We do not distribute the database nor the data file, but we provide Perl scripts that will convert the GeoIP database to the format that ccfilter.so expects.

MaxMind distributes multiple versions of their GeoIP Country database; one is a free evaluation copy that is "97% accurate". In addition, they sell versions with higher accuracy, and they offer various subscription services.

The rwgeoip2ccmap(1) program converts the MaxMind GeoIP file to the form that the SiLK tools require.

ENVIRONMENT

SILK_COUNTRY_CODES
    This environment variable allows the user to specify the country code mapping file that the SiLK tools use. The value may be a complete path or a file relative to SILK_PATH. If the variable is not specified, the code looks for a file named country_codes.pmap as specified in the "FILES" section below.

SILK_PATH
    This environment variable gives the root of the install tree. The SiLK applications check the directories $SILK_PATH/share/silk and $SILK_PATH/share for the country code mapping file, country_codes.pmap.

FILES
The tools will look for the data file that maps IPs to country codes in the following locations:

  $SILK_COUNTRY_CODES
  $SILK_PATH/share/silk/country_codes.pmap
  $SILK_PATH/share/country_codes.pmap
  /usr/local/share/silk/country_codes.pmap
  /usr/local/share/country_codes.pmap

SEE ALSO
rwcut(1), rwfilter(1), rwgroup(1), rwsort(1), rwstats(1), rwuniq(1), rwgeoip2ccmap(1), rwip2cc(1)

BUGS
Prefix map files do not support IPv6 addresses.