Hi all, I was thinking of some features that may be interesting (at least I think they may be interesting for us, so they may be also for some other people). We use nfacctd with a bgp session to put together netflow and bgp information to a database, only for inbound traffic.
1: what about a feature to prevent any db insertion before a BGP session established within the first minutes of nfacctd life? That would prevent empty AS/BGP related fields in the database. Something like a ldp-synchronization hold-time xx seconds that junos/cisco/others implement for their IGP. 2: what about a feature to shorten or compress the stuff inserted in src_as_path, regarding prepended ASes? Obviously incoming traffic is not linked to the as_path to the source, but it's still interesting to see which kind of link you use to see it. In those conditions, prepended ASes are meaningless in this direction; what about removing prependings in this field ? Or what about replacing prependings by something like AS[55] for a 55 times prepended AS (something that would be easy to remove at the select)? Feel free to comment. -- Olivier Benghozi Wifirst _______________________________________________ pmacct-discussion mailing list http://www.pmacct.net/#mailinglists
