Sorry for the late reply... Sightline *Insight* is the piece the sales team won't sell me, and TAC won't support me, for deployment in our private-cloud environment: it has to be hosted on one of 3 canned server configurations.

I am using Sightline/TMS virtually and it's fine there.

-Adam


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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+athompson=merlin.mb.ca@nanog.org> on behalf of Dobbins, Roland via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 9:34:21 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: FastNetMon Usage in the wild
 

On 11 Oct 2023, at 01:50, Adam Thompson <athompson@merlin.mb.ca> wrote:

you need to buy a moderately-expensive hardware server (they don’t let you virtualize it) 

To clarify, Sightline has supported virtualization for many years, FYI.

 I’m not aware of any anti-DDoS products at ISP scale that aren’t SFlow + Flowspec, possibly including “scrubbing” (diverter box);

 I don’t know if it’s an in-band appliance, or a “scrubber”-on-a-stick

In addition to flow telemetry, D/RTBH, S/RTBH, and flowspec, Sightline/TMS supports intelligent DDoS mitigation directly in-line or via diversion/reinjection.

[Full disclosure:  I am an employee of NETSCOUT.]