[54207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Mon Dec 16 23:25:12 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 23:38:42 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021216171836.02c1ceb0@nemo.corp.equinix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Hi all -
>
> Here is the problem: Everyone wants to know how much traffic would
> ultimately be passed in peering relationships at an IX before signing
> up/building into an IX.
>
> I heard an interesting solution recently to estimating the traffic volume
> destined to an AS in the absence of NetFlow or the like.
I have an amazingly simple proposition - as opposite to guesstimating the data
coming up with excuses why not to use NetFlow, get NetFlow data for your own
network.
Alex
