[c-nsp] MPLS-AWARE NETFLOW

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at arbor.net
Tue Nov 25 22:29:05 EST 2014


On 25 Nov 2014, at 6:44, SECURITY @ CYTANET wrote:

> For us the reason we want to use Netflow in the core is mainly to do 
> simplify troubleshooting in the core especially in the cases of 
> congested links or in the event of unbalanced core links. A lot of 
> services are passing from the core including multicast TV, VOICE, 
> Internet etc, and it will be of great benefit if Netflow can be 
> present on the core.

Sure - but exporting it from the core rarely makes much sense.  It's 
very useful to leverage from the CLI on core routers.

> Another way to observed the core traffic is to enable NETFLOW on all 
> EGDE routers.

Which is what I said previously.

;>

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>


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