Re: flow analysis for juniper devices

[Mehmet Akcin <mehmet () akcin net>]

Hi again,

I think many of you got stuck at the "freeware" part however if there are good suggestions you have which would help 
achieving what I would like to achieve by paying for a software, I am open to listen suggestions on that as well.

just thought would mention

mehmet

On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:12 AM, Paolo Lucente wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:04:36AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Paolo Lucente wrote:
> >
> > > OTOH it would be nice to see one day those NetFlow v9 MAC address fields
> > > populated on higher-grade boxes, say, to facilitate analysis of public
> > > peering at internet exchanges ...
> >
> > This can be done with mac accounting in your platform.  It may require ordering the right PIC in this case, but is 
> > easy to collect that data.
>
> MAC accounting is not a solution, except for basic things, for at
> least two reasons: 1) it is coarse-grained and 2) its segregation
> from flow accounting prevents having all the eggs in one basket.
>
> Cheers,
> Paolo