[c-nsp] ASR 1000 series again: Netflow export

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Fri May 15 09:00:58 EDT 2009


On May 15, 2009, at 4:12 AM, Elmar K. Bins wrote:

> benny+usenet at amorsen.dk (Benny Amorsen) wrote:
>
>> The mgmt port should perhaps be thought of as an ethernet version  
>> of the
>> console port? Personally, I would prefer that to be the case; the  
>> more
>> it looks like a serial port + a terminal server + a power control  
>> bar,
>> the better.
>
> Which is of not much use. Initial configuration happens over the  
> console,
> and from then on, the Mgt port is supposed to be the out-of-band
> management transfer, used for
>
>  - AAA (Tacacs etc)
>  - Logging
>  - ssh
>  - NTP
>  - SNMP
>  - SW updates
>  - Netflow
>
>
> What's the use of deliberately disabling part of the management
> functionality, just because "it might not be able to keep up
> with the bandwidth"? I can easily saturate the bw with SW updates.

	Not all of the above work on the mgmt, and i'm not talking about  
netflow.  You should ask these questions to Cisco directly.

	- Jared


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