Hi Mike,

snip ..

> 
> Just so I can wrap my head around this just a bit before attempting to open a 
> case with Extreme -- looking at the
> definitions for the IPFIX tags:
> 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipfix/ipfix.xhtml
> 
> The definition of the four tags:
> 
> 21: The relative timestamp of the last packet of this Flow. It indicates the 
> number of milliseconds since the last
> (re-)initialization of the IPFIX Device (sysUpTime).
> 
> 22: The relative timestamp of the first packet of this Flow. It indicates the 
> number of milliseconds since the last
> (re-)initialization of the IPFIX Device (sysUpTime).
> 
> 152: The absolute timestamp of the first packet of this Flow.
> 
> 153: The absolute timestamp of the last packet of this Flow.
> 
> 
> 
> I think I'm missing something (forgive my ignorance).  Your description of 
> what the device is exporting into tags 21/22
> (offset in msec since boot) seems to match what's listed on the tag page.

To my knowledge, the IPFIX tags list also include netflow v9 tags regardless 
whether they are used or not and whether
they make sense or not. So you will find any v9 tags in the IPFIX table also 
21,22. They are used in v9. The sysupTime
itself is transferred in the v9 header. So the collector can calculate the 
absolute time stamps. However, this sysupTime
does not exists in IPFIX, neither as tag nor in the header. IPFIX and and 
netflow v9 have different headers. The
collector is therefore unable to display start/stop time stamps. Instead of 
relative time stamps 21,22 your device
should use absolute time stamps 152,153 which are common in IPFIX.

Hope, that helps.

        - Peter

> 
> Are you saying that the Extreme is currently exporting data meant for tags 
> 153/152 into tags 21/22 by mistake?  Or is
> the data in tags 21/22 correct but they need to also export tags 152/153 and 
> they are not doing that?
> 
> I just need to be able to clearly describe the issue and what needs to be 
> done to fix it to them at the time I open the
> ticket.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Mike

-- 
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Be nice to your netflow data

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