[183411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NetFlow - path from Routers to Collector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Sep 1 18:36:40 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 05:36:15 +0700
In-Reply-To: <20150901202411.GF4116@excession.tpb.net>
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On 2 Sep 2015, at 3:24, Niels Bakker wrote:
> Because variety of flow telemetry delivery options isn't the #1 ranked
> purchasing decider.
Actually, it is more often than you think. No use routing packets if
you can't see what they do.
> Otherwise no Cisco would ever have been sold.
Which is utter nonsense, of course, since Cisco a) invented flow
telemetry and b) has been the consistent leader in innovating flow
telemetry (FNF, IPFIX, anyone?). The EARL6/EARL7 problems are the only
stumbles Cisco has made in this regard.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
