Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

[Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>]

Thanks for the pointers and suggestions!

Now I know I'm pushing my luck... but do certain vendors more fully 
embrace sFlow than others? maybe one of the whitebox vendors if not one 
of the majors?

Hacking support into something isn't the worse thing in the world, but 
if there is any experience on this to leverage off of, that is helpful.

TIA,

Deepak

On 4/16/2019 6:30 AM, Yang Yu wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:14 AM Nick Morrison <nick () nanocat net> wrote:
> >
> > Actually the sflow standard is flexible, and there are many fields widely available, including input interface and 
> > output interface, vlan/vxlan/mpls headers, etc. The sending device just needs to support the fields.
>
>
> Vendor support for sFlow extended data types seems to be very limited
> and there are quite a few caveats on when the data is
> missing/inaccurate.
>
> RFC5472 Section 4.2 Using IPFIX for Billing (Reliability Limitations)
> might be applicable to sFlow as well.
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5472#section-4.2
>
>
> Yang