<div dir="ltr"><div><br>Netflow or the currant "standard" is now called IPFIX. This is certainly support by Cisco as well as many other vendor.<br> <br>In relation to sflow not being a useful technology. I disagree. They essential both do the same, analyse traffic flows. However, sflow does so by packet sampling, 1 packet out of X sent to the collector. Where as IPFIX/Netflow send every packet to the collector. They both very useful, however there is a lot of design considering when rolling them out.<br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Ivan<br></div><div><br></div><br><div><br><br><br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 June 2015 at 11:46, Paul Koch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.koch137@gmail.com" target="_blank">paul.koch137@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 20:38:10 +0000<br>
Russell Brenner <rbrenner@Brocade.com> wrote:<br>
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> Going forward it'll be better to use Sflow since netflow is largely<br>
> unsupported outside of Cisco, but I'm open to be corrected if that's not 100%<br>
> true.<br>
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</span>Hmm, not quite true.<br>
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See vendor support near the bottom of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFlow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFlow</a><br>
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A misconception is that sFlow does the same thing as Netflow. sFlow isn't<br>
a useful technology.<br>
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