Tracking traffic usage at router or switch port?

Wed Jun 1 18:04:11 UTC 2016

On Wed 2016-Jun-01 12:58:15 -0500, Jason Lee <jason.m.lee at gmail.com> wrote:

>NANOG Community,
>
>Typically where would you expect a service provider to monitor bandwidth
>usage on your circuits? On the physical switch port interface or on the
>vlan interface at the router? In some of the field testing I've been doing
>there can be a difference in the bandwidth usage on the vlan interface at
>the router vs the physical switch port. Is there any particular reason for
>using one vs the other? Is there an industry best practice for this?

How big of a difference?  Full frame / L2 (@ switch) vs. L3 payload (@ 
router)?

>
>Thanks,
>
>Jason

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