Re: NetFlow

From: Jonathan Tse (jonathantse@pacific.net.sg)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 20:08:12 EDT


But if the "7000 packet per second" sampling is true for juniper. Assume
average packet size is 1000Bytes. The juniper is able to monitor 50-60Mbps
traffic only. Or GSR is not as good as VXR in this part?

Jonathan.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Noetzelman" <jnoetzel@cac.washington.edu>
To: "Jonathan Tse" <jonathantse@pacific.net.sg>
Cc: <juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: NetFlow

> Sorry, I should have clarified. The head to head tests were with the GSR
> doing sampling at the same 1/X rate as the M10.
>
> Regarding the maximum capture rate for the VXR, it'll handle OC3, since
> that's the largest line we use them for. One of our OC3's routinely gets
> up to 120-130mb/s with no netflow loss.
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jonathan Tse wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jeremy Noetzelman" <jnoetzel@cac.washington.edu>
> > To: "Matt Ranney" <mjr@ranney.com>
> > Cc: <juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 11:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: NetFlow
> >
> >
> > > It is somewhat important to note that Cisco NetFlow can't keep up with
> > > full sampling at higher line rates. We've run extensive tests using
GSR's
> >
> > But it is apple to orange, isn't it? Comparing GSR full capture with
M10's
> > sampling? Or did I miss something?
> >
> > Any idea of the maximum capture rate of VXR?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jonathan.
> >
> >
>



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