[c-nsp] netflow

Dale W. Carder dwcarder at wisc.edu
Tue Nov 20 11:23:43 EST 2007


On Nov 20, 2007, at 8:54 AM, Jeff Fitzwater wrote:
> We are runnning it on a 720-3B with aprox 30 SVIs and aprox 150 L2
> ports that are associated with the SVI vlans.   As soon as I enable
> the MLS (hardware switched flows) portion of the netflow, the switch
> CPU jumps up to around 50-80.

I've seen 60% on the SP with a consistently full netflow
table on a 3BXL.  Since it is on the SP cpu, we haven't
been particularly concerned.

>   Since we want to collect all flows, we
> do not want to do sampled flows.

Good thing you don't want it, because the 6500 can't do
hardware sampling.

Dale

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University of Wisconsin at Madison
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