"shiva" <shiva@iasiaworks.com> writes:
> OK, here's the situation, as described by our developer building a billing
> app:
> We want to do variable billing. Its hard to do that on the Juniper
> platform.
>
> First of all, Juniper's NetFlow implementation can only handle 7000
> packets per second. Our average packet size in the US is around
> 130bytes, which translates to a sampling rate of around 7Mb/s. This
[...]
Since I wrote that originally missive, allow me to summarize:
NetFlow on the Juniper platform does indeed work for statistical
sampling of no more than 7000pps. It is not suited for billing.
If you want more accurate numbers, see if DCU can do what you want.
DCU is handled by the IP2, and doesn't degrade performance at all.
You can argue that NetFlow on the Cisco platform is not suited for
billing either, but that's a separate discussion. Many people are in
fact using Cisco's NetFlow for billing purposes.
-- Matt Ranney - mjr@ranney.com
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