[183405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NetFlow - path from Routers to Collector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Sep 1 16:25:49 2015
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 22:24:11 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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>On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 22:47:09 +0300, Tarko Tikan said:
>>Bad advice. No amount of money will fix major platforms that are
>>not happy to export flow telemetry via router management ports.
Correct. And for a proper network you may not wish to have those
connections from in-band ports to your OOB/management network everywhere.
* Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) [Tue 01 Sep 2015, 22:13 CEST]:
>And that box ended up in your rack, why exactly?
Because variety of flow telemetry delivery options isn't the #1 ranked
purchasing decider. Otherwise no Cisco would ever have been sold.
><insert excuses that boil down to "We were willing to accept gear
>that didn't have this functionality because we were OK with sending
>flow telemetry over the inband network">
Everything is a tradeoff. Welcome to the real world, where we have to
make things work rather than pose on mailing lists about what we think
other people should have.
-- Niels.
