On May 20, 2009, at 4:18 AM, [email protected] wrote:
You should *not* use sampled netflow for accounting/billing.
It's my understanding that it's actually pretty common for sampled NetFlow to be used for accounting and billing purposes. If one makes use of sampled flow telemetry for things such as capacity planning and security, whyever would one object to using it for accounting/billing purposes? The only objection I've ever seen along these lines is in a couple of countries whose laws/regulations could be interpreted as disallowing the use of sampling in this context (though even in the particular circumstances to which I refer, it was my view that this was an overinterpretative stretch; IANAL, however).
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