[j-nsp] MX204 sFlow and BGP attributes

[Patrick Okui]

On 22 Oct 2020, at 12:35 EAT, Gerald wrote:

> Am 22.10.20 um 11:14 schrieb Patrick Okui:
>> Any reason you’re not using j-flow instead? It should be supported
>> inline and include source/dest ASN (if the router has BGP sessions).
>>
>> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos/topics/concept/inline-sampling-overview.html
>
> Because currently we are still using sFlow-only monitoring software. 
> We will probably went to other flow tools in the future but I had the 
> little hope that we could enable sFlow BGP attributes on the MX in any 
> way without changing our flow monitoring in advance.

ACK.

I’ve always felt Juniper’s implementation of sFLOW was targeted 
towards bridging so you mostly get attributes a switch would be 
interested in.


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patrick