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Re: NetFlow - path from Routers to Collector

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Wed Sep 2 10:14:59 2015

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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:13:19 +0700
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On 2 Sep 2015, at 21:08, Jared Mauch wrote:

> I see where Roland is trying to go and he’s in the “magic byte” 
> realm of the extra label makes it “OOB” where as the rest of us 
> just see 1’s and 0’s on the wire and know a bit is a bit 
> regardless of tag-switching (the original name for MPLS) or IEEE 
> 802.1q label.

I know a bit is a bit, and it's on the same boxes and the same linecards 
and the same interfaces and the same RPs (if it comes to that).

But keeping stuff separate at the IP logical network level is better 
than mixing it together, even on the same hardware.  Doing it physically 
separately is best.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>

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