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Re: Real world sflow vs netflow?


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:15:30 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Łukasz Bromirski wrote:

NetFlow, jFlow, IPFIX deal with flows. You can discuss sampling accuracy and things like that, but working with flows is more accurate.

If you do 1:1000 sampling with both Netflow and sFlow, why would one of them be more accurate than the other? If you analyze the flow on the device or on the collector (as might be done with sFlow), I don't see why one would be btter than the other.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se

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