Re: Fwd: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-17 Thread William B. Norton
At 04:36 AM 12/18/2002 +, Sean M.Doran wrote: I have found peering to have additive value; a lot of 1-2 Mbps peering sessions can save as much money for you as a single large traffic peer. The more traffic, the stronger the case for peering. Sadly, this completely ignores the cost of impl

Fwd: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-17 Thread Sean M . Doran
I have found peering to have additive value; a lot of 1-2 Mbps peering sessions can save as much money for you as a single large traffic peer. The more traffic, the stronger the case for peering. Sadly, this completely ignores the cost of implementing and maintaining peerings. BGP does not e

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-17 Thread dre
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:25:58AM -0800, dre wrote: > Prothat include capex+opex to a variety of vendors (creating vendor > dependence) with new "extra" routers (equipment), and seemingly > costly exchange point "extra" connectivity, with "extra" racks and > power requirements with monthly re-occ

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-17 Thread dre
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:53:26PM -0800, William B. Norton wrote: > > Right, it is crude, but in an economy where business decisions > require "Quantifiable *Proof*", this is quantifiable and easy to > do. Some Peering Coordinators are putting together business > plans now for peering at the I

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-17 Thread alex
> > > Also, that method has the same "knowing the routes" problem as netflow. > > > Whereever you are getting your list of ASN's route ASN.*"'s routes, there > > > is pretty much no way they are accurate (for an ASN of ANY size). > > > > The vast majority of the routes will be an intersection o

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread William B. Norton
Quantifiable Proof and "Peering Profiles"...see below. At 08:53 PM 12/16/2002 -0800, Joe Wood wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Joe Abley wrote: > I think the idea was to say "well, from the mrtg graph, the difference > between this circuit with all my _9327_ traffic and this circuit > without any _

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:41:12PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Also, that method has the same "knowing the routes" problem as netflow. > > Whereever you are getting your list of ASN's route ASN.*"'s routes, there > > is pretty much no way they are accurate (for an ASN of ANY size). >

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread Joe Wood
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Joe Abley wrote: > I think the idea was to say "well, from the mrtg graph, the difference > between this circuit with all my _9327_ traffic and this circuit > without any _9327_ traffic, at what I might reasonably estimate their > peak time to be, looks to be about 2 megs or

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread William B. Norton
At 09:16 PM 12/16/2002 -0500, K. Scott Bethke wrote: Impressive numbers but of course, slackers aside, if it was your connection and resources wouldnt you want more accurate information than just a guess? Yes, but I am also sympathetic to the challenges to ISPs in this economy, and the challen

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread alex
> > > based on ALL the ASN's of the people on the peering switch.. but in most > > > cases anyone pushing any real traffic will probably not have fine grained > > > samples enough to determine a peering relationship based on a single AS > > > with this method. Maybe Im wrong but hey if you are

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread alex
> On Monday 16 December 2002 07:37 pm, Joe Abley wrote: > > If you are interested in traffic *to* a particular destination, surely > > you could just tweak localpref on routes based on an as-path filter? > > And then quantify it how? Ie; useful Netflow-like "x Mbps to AS x, y Mbps to > AS y" sta

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread alex
> > based on ALL the ASN's of the people on the peering switch.. but in most > > cases anyone pushing any real traffic will probably not have fine grained > > samples enough to determine a peering relationship based on a single AS > > with this method. Maybe Im wrong but hey if you are taking 2

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread alex
> Hi all - > > Here is the problem: Everyone wants to know how much traffic would > ultimately be passed in peering relationships at an IX before signing > up/building into an IX. > > I heard an interesting solution recently to estimating the traffic volume > destined to an AS in the absence

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread Joe Abley
On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 22:47 Canada/Eastern, Grant A. Kirkwood wrote: On Monday 16 December 2002 07:37 pm, Joe Abley wrote: If you are interested in traffic *to* a particular destination, surely you could just tweak localpref on routes based on an as-path filter? And then quantify it ho

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread Grant A. Kirkwood
On Monday 16 December 2002 07:37 pm, Joe Abley wrote: > If you are interested in traffic *to* a particular destination, surely > you could just tweak localpref on routes based on an as-path filter? And then quantify it how? Ie; useful Netflow-like "x Mbps to AS x, y Mbps to AS y" statistics? --

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread Joe Abley
On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 22:28 Canada/Eastern, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:16:55PM -0500, K. Scott Bethke wrote: based on ALL the ASN's of the people on the peering switch.. but in most cases anyone pushing any real traffic will probably not have fine grained

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:16:55PM -0500, K. Scott Bethke wrote: > > based on ALL the ASN's of the people on the peering switch.. but in most > cases anyone pushing any real traffic will probably not have fine grained > samples enough to determine a peering relationship based on a single AS > w

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 05:46:10PM -0800, William B. Norton wrote: > > 1) You adjust routing to prefer one transit provider or the other for the AS > 2) Shift traffic to the particular AS from one transit provider to the > other, noting the change in the loads on the transit providers. Ouch. Am

Re: Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread K. Scott Bethke
Hi Bill, Impressive numbers but of course, slackers aside, if it was your connection and resources wouldnt you want more accurate information than just a guess? This may be effective for an IX decision if you created some sort of a map based on ALL the ASN's of the people on the peering switch..

Alternative to NetFlow for Measuring Traffic flows

2002-12-16 Thread William B. Norton
Hi all - Here is the problem: Everyone wants to know how much traffic would ultimately be passed in peering relationships at an IX before signing up/building into an IX. I heard an interesting solution recently to estimating the traffic volume destined to an AS in the absence of NetFlow or t