And with SNMP we can calculate only link rate but in case if we want
the bandwidth consumption by specific traffic based on combination of
hosts and port numbers ( i.e based on L-3 and higher layers ) netflow is
the best.
Venu
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Venu Gopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I agree with you on SNMP.
>
> We are in the process of developing SNMP based Network Monitoring System.
> Since netflow is being used for quite some time along with nfdump+nfsen,
> we thought of exploring it for such calculations.
>
> Regarding. processing power and network traffic, if we can do it with out
> SNMP (using netflow) we can reduce the load on network devices and
> network traffic too !.
>
> Venu
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