[j-nsp] NetFlow on M7i

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Erdem Sener wrote:
> In case you're monitoring on a interface basis, and just the in/out
> octets, I would aggree that SNMP is the way to go and using sampling
> would just be complexing things unnecessarily.
> 
> However, if you not only need the interface counters but want to have
> information on flows (e.g traffic from/to a single host host on a /24
> ethernet interface), sampling would do the trick.
> 
> Cheers,
> Erdem
> 

Unfortunately SNMP monitoring won't work for us.  We need to be able to exclude 
certain traffic from the measurements (such as locally-originated backup 
traffic, etc).  This is why NetFlow or something similar is what we need to use.

--Mike