[c-nsp] SXI1 is out

Kevin Loch kloch at kl.net
Wed Apr 1 19:46:38 EDT 2009


Peter Rathlev wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 14:01 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
>> netflow on the 65xx is broken enough i'm surprised it gave you any  
>> data of value.
> 
> Hm, I thought it worked okay. Out of curiosity, what should one be
> careful about with it, if one's network was dominated by 6500s?
> 
> We only use it for troubleshooting though, so precision is less
> important for us if that's the problem.

I wouldn't use it for accounting but with the right sampling it
can be used to see how much traffic you are sending to/from
other ASN's.  I use:

mls sampling packet-based 1024 8192

Which gives a convenient ~1000 conversion factor from indicated 
bandwidth to actual.

- Kevin


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