[189535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tracking traffic usage at router or switch port?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Wed Jun 1 14:20:22 2016
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To: Jason Lee <jason.m.lee@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 20:18:03 +0200
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On 1/Jun/16 19:58, Jason Lee wrote:
> NANOG Community,
>
> Typically where would you expect a service provider to monitor bandwidth
> usage on your circuits? On the physical switch port interface or on the
> vlan interface at the router? In some of the field testing I've been doing
> there can be a difference in the bandwidth usage on the vlan interface at
> the router vs the physical switch port. Is there any particular reason for
> using one vs the other? Is there an industry best practice for this?
We track both.
Mark.
