I see that helps, thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2020 8:38 AM
To: Drew Weaver <drew.wea...@thenap.com>
Cc: 'Dobbins, Roland' <roland.dobb...@netscout.com>;
'cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net' <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Netflow/Sflow for "irrelevant" traffic?
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 12:23:28PM +0000, Drew Weaver wrote:
> So just for a refresher if you are sampling lets say at 1:500 and lets say 1
> byte goes through an interface that is not intended to produce an export?
It's statistics: 1:500 says "only look at one packet in 500" - so it will just
not *see* this "1 byte" (with a very high propability).
> The exporting only happens if the amount of data is over a certain threshold?
> Does that threshold vary?
Not "data over threshold" but "did you see the packet or not"
gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de
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