[c-nsp] MPLS Netflow capabilities

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Tue May 10 22:15:56 EDT 2011


On May 11, 2011, at 12:44 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:

> I don't have any direct experience with the ASR9K yet, but my guess would be that whatever Netflow data export is done does not involve unwrapping 
> the MPLS packets to look at the header data of the encapsulated IP packet.


Concur 100%.

NetFlow is primarily an edge technology, anyways.  So, in an MPLS network, flow telemetry should be exported from the CE or the PE routers.

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