5 Apr
2008
5 Apr
'08
6:28 a.m.
On Apr 5, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
The flows are in those boxes, but only for stats purposes exported with NetFlow/IPFIX/sFlow/etc. Apparently it was not as fast as they liked it to be
This is essentially correct. NetFlow was originally intended as a switching mechanism, but then it became apparent that the value of the information in the cache and the ability to export it as telemetry were of more value, as there were other, more efficient methods of moving the packets around. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com> // +66.83.266.6344 mobile History is a great teacher, but it also lies with impunity. -- John Robb