[c-nsp] Netflow/Sflow for "irrelevant" traffic?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:23:28PM +0000, Drew Weaver wrote:
> So just for a refresher if you are sampling lets say at 1:500 and lets say 1 byte goes through an interface that is not intended to produce an export?

It's statistics: 1:500 says "only look at one packet in 500" - so it
will just not *see* this "1 byte" (with a very high propability).

> The exporting only happens if the amount of data is over a certain threshold? Does that threshold vary?

Not "data over threshold" but "did you see the packet or not"

gert
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