On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:44 -0500, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > The commercial tools for classifying deeper than header info a la netflow > are out there already, although they may not be as "slick to deploy" as > netflow (which brings its own challenges) by turning on knobs in software on > existing routing equipment. The limitation is how motivated is the business > to deploy the gear, not whether viable equipment exists for exactly that > purpose..
And which kind of gear is this, except for boxes which need a mirror of the complete traffic ? There are a couple of NetFlow (9/IPFIX) meters that can additionally to the normal fields can also pass eg the first 100 bytes of a conversation in either direction. But those are also meters on a seperate box and not embedded in the hardware of routers (or is there anything I missed ;) Greets, Jeroen
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