[j-nsp] NetFlow on M7i

[TCIS List Acct]

Chris Morrow wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, TCIS List Acct wrote:
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>> First, thanks to everyone that responded to my questions yesterday -- 
>> I think we
>> have decided on going the new M7i route.
>>
>> Now, on to the next question -- we plan to use NetFlow for billing 
>> purposes, and
>> I've read that Juniper's NetFlow is limited to 7,000pps or something 
>> similar.
> 
> 7kpps for RE sampled traffic, and it's 7k samples/second. So if you 
> sample 1:100 it's really 700kpps. Make sense?  The M7i comes with an 
> integrated AS-PIC, the AS-PIC will do many things one of which is 
> 'sampling' :) It does this at about 400kpps samples, so 1:100 sampling 
> means you can sample about 40,000kpps (40mpps).
> 

Do all M7i's come with an integrated AS-PIC?  I thought that was only included 
on the -ASM model?  I assume with 1:100 sampling, that means that I am missing 
flows?

--Mike