[c-nsp] Netflow vs SNMP

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Mon Oct 2 07:41:16 EDT 2023


On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 at 13:22, Dobbins, Roland via cisco-nsp
<cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> cache timeout inactive 15
> Kentik recommends 15s:
>
> This is an old, out-of-date recommendation from Cisco should be retired.
>
> 5s is plenty of time for inactive flows.

What is the basis for this recommendation? With 1:10k or 1:1k, either
way you'll have 1 packet per cache item. So 15, 5, 1, 0 would allow an
equal amount of cache row re-use, which is none.

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