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Re: OOB core router connectivity wish list

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Jan 10 05:48:53 2013

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:48:39 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20130110071552.GA31266@pob.ytti.fi>
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On Jan 10, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:

> That is task for on-band interfaces, which attach to your forwarding-logi=
c.

No it isn't, any more than SNMP is a task for those interfaces.

> To export flow, you need port to be connected to your forwarding hardware=
, not control-plane and certainly not OOB management-plane.=20

Again, the analogy is with SNMP.  There's no requirement to be part of the =
data-plane, it's quite possible to get the flow telemetry to the management=
 processor, same as with SNMP.

> Cheack Cisco's "CMP" this is what we need.

I'm quite familiar with it, thanks.

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