[c-nsp] Netflow / 3560 platform

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:00:22PM -0700, Brian Spade wrote:
> Hi, adding back cisco-nsp
> 
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Buhrmaster, Gary <gtb at slac.stanford.edu>wrote:
> > > Can anyone explain why Cisco fails to support Netflow on the
> > > 3560 Catalyst switches?
> >
> > They did not build the hardware to support it.
> >
> > One of the many feature/cost choices made on
> > that platform during the design.
> 
> These routers are software based -- Cisco 800, 1800, 2800, and 3800 -- and
> support Netflow.

That's the point: they are software based.  You can do everything on 
SW based platforms.

The 3560 is hardware based, and it's "fairly simple" hardware, as opposed 
to a 6500/7600, which has more complex (and more expensive!) hardware.

So the 3560 hardware just cannot do it, because implementing it would have
made the box much more expensive.

gert
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