I recently discovered that the Ecessa appliance has the ability to send NetFlow v5 or IPFIX information to a NetFlow/IPFIX collector. In this blog, I am going to explain how to configure NetFlow with Ecessa appliances.
The few debates that have emerged over NetFlow Vs. sFlow often highlight why one technology is better than the other. In this post, I would like to emphasize where the technologies are similar as well as where they should be implemented (i.e. one over the other). Certainly both have some merits but, one technology is definitely …
Sampling traffic in an effort to represent the overall traffic pattern in theory is a sound idea. In fact, for the most part, I agree that statistically, sampling can be as accurate as rolling a dice 1296 times and expecting exactly 216 matches for each of the 6 possible outcomes. Well, I doubt it. When …
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