Real world sflow vs netflow?
Mikael Abrahamsson
swmike at swm.pp.se
Thu Sep 20 18:21:46 UTC 2012
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Peter Phaal wrote:
> I am a puzzled by the orthodoxy that seems to prevail around the value
> "flows" as a measure of network traffic in packet switched networks.
What platforms actually do real unsampled netflow today, and do it well
for multi-10gigabit worth of typical Internet traffic?
Most of the platforms I know of do sampled netflow at 1:100-1:1000 or so,
and then I don't really see the fundamental difference in doing the flow
analysis on the router itself (classic netflow) or doing the same but at
the sFlow collector.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike at swm.pp.se
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