Re: NetFlow

From: Simon Leinen (simon@limmat.switch.ch)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 10:53:45 EDT


>>>>> "mr" == Matt Ranney <mjr@ranney.com> writes:
> From what I can see, billing-grade analysis on fast links works much
> better on transparent analyzers than it does on a router doing lots
> of other work already.

That's certainly true, but it is so handy to have this functionality
in the routers, especially if you have to look at many links that
happen to go through few routers.

A good compromise might be to have special hardware *within* the
routers that would perform the same tasks of those analyzers.

-- 
Simon.



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