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Re: netflow analysis for jitter and packet loss?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Feb 1 22:39:37 2011

From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=y+1X7Q2RmMdcamanX0xfbxjw0_Bs00JGHKXJi@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:38:50 +0700
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Shacolby Jackson wrote:

> Any suggestions?

Flow telemetry is extremely useful, but it isn't really suited for =
looking at things like jitter and delay, and out-of-order packets.  It =
can be used to identify loss in many instances, as well as =
communications relationships, bps/pps, source/destination distribution, =
macro-level application behaviors, statistical and behavioral anomalies, =
DDoS attacks, et. al., but you really need packet-level =
classification/inspection to get the level of detail you mention.

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