[c-nsp] NDE on 6500 DFCs

[christian.macnevin at uk.bnpparibas.com]

Evidently Crannog does care, the way it's set up. I'm trying to find out 
about NetScout as well.





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christian.macnevin at uk.bnpparibas.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly, thanks for the speedy replies over the past few days. Most
> useful.
>
> Secondly, I'm told by Crannog that the DFCs on my shiny new 6500 67XX 
line
> cards will export netflow independently of the PFC

The DFC has its own flow cache, that's certainly true.

> and supervisor, thus consuming more software licenses at the other end.
>
> That true? I'm pretty sure Tim confirmed it at some stage, but can't 
find
> it in any presentations I've got stashed.

Depends what you or your software means by "independently". The flow
records all come from the same source IP and port, but the flow sequence
numbers did not appear to be synced at least between software and DFC
flows on our box. One assumes the sequences numbers are not synced
between DFCs either. nfdump and nfsen don't seem to care however.
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