[rtg] Fwd: Results with RTG

Mark Boolootian booloo at ucsc.edu
Mon Mar 9 16:51:24 EDT 2009


> > With Netflow, you are "interpolating" the rates off those sampling points.
> 
>  NetFlow is a network protocol, of which there are various implementations.  
>  What you are describing is Sampled Netflow and would not be suitable for 
>  billing. But that is not the only way.

That isn't true.  Netflow sampling appears to work perfectly fine for
billing.  As I mentioned before, CENIC has used sampled netflow for billing
approaching ten years.  CENIC is far from alone in doing this.


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