[150429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Traffic Collection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Thu Feb 23 17:00:47 2012
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:59:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+vWMo5DUC9+s_W2Z99tA=+7ROD2kDvNG-a2R0ZET_ZPX25+Zg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Maverick wrote:
> I want to be able to see information like how much traffic an ip send
> over a period of time, what machines it talked to etc from this
> perspective it should be IP based but I would really like to know how
> other people do it.
Truth is that most people probably don't do it, beyond temporary, ad-hoc
deployments, to solve a specific problem at a specific point in time.
Traffic capture and analysis doesn't scale too well into multi-Gb/s
service provider environments.
Netflow tools are an option if 'reasonably accurate' is good enough for
your needs.
jms
