[50120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi-collector Netflow/etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Fri Jul 19 03:55:22 2002
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:50:56 +0200
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
Reply-To: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <005601c22e72$99dc5b60$5801a8c0@LYSANDER>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> data and this was then fed to the main processing server. However, in
>> general I think it's pretty hard to make Netflow data scale...ideally you
>> would be able to pick which fields you wanted exported...
>
> The NetFlow v9 format looks like it would support this kind of thing.
> Whether cisco will actually implement it that way I don't know.
Netflow9 is also only sampled data right? Although pretty close to the real
numbers it's not realyl useful for for example billing.
- kurtis -
