[183413] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NetFlow - path from Routers to Collector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Sep 1 18:43:47 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <5EC65B35-3AF3-42EC-A1C2-E8CD5ACB571C@arbor.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 18:38:58 -0400
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 6:36 PM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
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> On 2 Sep 2015, at 3:24, Niels Bakker wrote:
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>> Because variety of flow telemetry delivery options isn't the #1 =
ranked purchasing decider.
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> Actually, it is more often than you think. No use routing packets if =
you can't see what they do.
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>> Otherwise no Cisco would ever have been sold.
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> 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.
Roland,
Please stop digging, Sounds like you haven=E2=80=99t used Cisco =
recently. I=E2=80=99m happy to elaborate privately.
- Jared=
