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Cisco 6509 NetFlow Problems

Cisco 6509 NetFlow problems and recent improvements will be the main focus in this blog.  Since the reporting accuracy of your NetFlow or Flexible...

Cisco 7600 NetFlow Problems

The cutting edge Cisco 7600 Series is an edge router that delivers robust, high performance IP/MPLS features for service provider and enterprise WAN/MAN applications....

Cisco ASA NetFlow Problems

Although the Cisco ASA NetFlow exports have had some problems in the past, Cisco was the first vendor to export flows from a firewall...

NetFlow V9 Overview: What’s in the NetFlow Packet Header?

Last week, Joanne started a series of blogs aimed at providing an overview of some NetFlow basics. I am going to continue this series...

What can be exported as a Flow: Use NetFlow v9 or IPFIX?

A month ago I was on a call with a hardware vendor that exports flows and he asked “What else should we be exporting...

OpenFlow vs NetFlow

OpenFlow and NetFlow are two completely different concepts. OpenFlow controls how packets are forwarded through network switches, and Netflow collects IP traffic information. It’s easy...

Solera IPFIX Support: Network Security Appliance Exports Flows

Good news: Solera IPFIX support is available in our IPFIX reporting solution.  This is no surprise as Flow Analysis (NetFlow and IPFIX) continue to...

Exporting NetFlow or IPFIX

Is your engineering team trying to decide if you should be exporting NetFlow or IPFIX? This is the area of the technology where many...

How to configure VMware vSphere ESX v5.1 IPFIX Support

Now that VMware vSphere ESX v5.1 supports IPFIX you may be wondering how to configure it; in fact, today I’m going to show you...

Cisco ASR NAT: Advanced Network Reporting Solution

Did you know that using an advanced network reporting solution you can log NAT and firewall events from a Cisco ASR router to a...