Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-17 Thread Peter Phaal
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:35 PM Deepak Jain wrote: > Now I know I'm pushing my luck... but do certain vendors more fully > embrace sFlow than others? maybe one of the whitebox vendors if not one > of the majors? > > Hacking support into something isn't the worse thing in the world, but > if

Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-16 Thread Deepak Jain
Thanks for the pointers and suggestions! Now I know I'm pushing my luck... but do certain vendors more fully embrace sFlow than others? maybe one of the whitebox vendors if not one of the majors? Hacking support into something isn't the worse thing in the world, but if there is any

Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-16 Thread Yang Yu
>On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:14 AM Nick Morrison wrote: > > Actually the sflow standard is flexible, and there are many fields widely > available, including input interface and output interface, vlan/vxlan/mpls > headers, etc. The sending device just needs to support the fields. Vendor support

Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-16 Thread Nick Morrison
> On 16. Apr 2019, at 00:21, Deepak Jain wrote: > > I'm only aware of Sflow being IP/protocol/etc aware. Actually the sflow standard is flexible, and there are many fields widely available, including input interface and output interface, vlan/vxlan/mpls headers, etc. The sending device just

RE: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-15 Thread Deepak Jain
/protocol/etc aware. thanks in advance, Deepak -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+deepak=ai@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Nick Morrison Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2019 8:09 AM To: Tony C Cc: nanog Subject: Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software On 14. Apr 2019

Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-14 Thread Nick Morrison
On 14. Apr 2019, at 13:28, Tony C wrote: > > Please keep the suggestions coming. I’ve had good results using Traffic Sentinel from Inmon. It’s got a nice queriable database backend and you don’t have to do much manual setup to get good results. The UI feels a bit 1995, but it works, and the

RE: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-14 Thread Tony C
? Please keep the suggestions coming. Tony From: Tom Beecher [mailto:beec...@beecher.cc] Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2019 9:24 AM To: Peter Phaal Cc: Tony C ; nanog Subject: Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software I’m curious what the service is that 50Mbps avg over a 24

Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-13 Thread Tom Beecher
I’m curious what the service is that 50Mbps avg over a 24 hr window is an investigative threshold. On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 17:57 Peter Phaal wrote: > Tony, > > You might find the following article useful in identifying features to > consider when evaluating sFlow analyzers: >

Re: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-13 Thread Peter Phaal
Tony, You might find the following article useful in identifying features to consider when evaluating sFlow analyzers: https://blog.sflow.com/2009/05/choosing-sflow-analyzer.html The following white paper discusses accuracy of packet sampling for usage accounting:

RE: Sflow billing or usage calculation software

2019-04-13 Thread Ryan Hamel
Tony, Take a look at pmacct, it will be able to handle your needs with a number of modifications. The section I linked below should give you a good starting point. Change the traffic dump to a MySQL database, add some indexes, craft some SQL queries, then you're off to the races. As for