RE: Netflow question

From: Said Ouissal (souissal@conxion.net)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 11:21:49 EST


Assuming that you use at least code 4.2, as there is an issue with earlier
code which halts the sampling process after some time and skyrockets CPU.

Said.

At 17:19 28-3-01, Greg Ketell wrote:
>The netflow statistics on the 7500 is gathered when you enable netflow
>switching. You get information on every packet through the router. On
>the GSR on on the M-series routers there is a statistical sampling done
>and then the information about those sampled packets is put into
>netflow-format and exported.
>
>On the M-series you can use filters to define what packets are sampled
>(syn/fin only, http only, packets from nn.nn.nn.nn only, etc), what ratio
>of packets you want to sample (grab every 1/N packets) and how long a
>"train" of packets to sample (1/N + X). But the router has throttles
>built in all over the place such that if you define sampling that would
>kill the router it will drop the information rather than dropping the router.
>
>GK



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