[181364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Data Center Network Monitoring with TAPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Mon Jun 22 03:36:49 2015
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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:36:34 +0700
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On 20 Jun 2015, at 23:06, Mitch Howards wrote:
> Was wondering what folks are using to monitor traffic on their
> networks. Looking into Ixia and APCON devices for dedup and other
> filtering features as well as passive fiber TAPs to capture the
> traffic.
Take a look at flow telemetry options you have for your IDC hardware - a
combination of flow telemetry, plus the ability to divert traffic into
an instrumented sinkhole for full packet-capture is something to
consider.
SPAN sessions count against your frames per-second budget; not
recommended for serious, high-traffic applications.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
