It's useful for figuring out who you are sending traffic to and who is sending 
traffic to you so you can plan peering arrangements and transit.

thanks,
-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Ellingsberg [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 9:59 AM
To: 'Ed Ravin'; Drew Weaver
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Flow-tools] IPv6 Support

What is this fixation with top talkers?  With most links at speeds of 100mb or 
better we should really be looking for the low and slow stalkers!  

Bigfoot.

>>> 
From:   'Ed Ravin' <[email protected]>
To:     Drew Weaver <[email protected]>
Date:   10/28/10 8:55 AM
Subject:        Re: [Flow-tools] IPv6 Support

CC:     "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:24:23AM - 0400, Drew Weaver wrote:

> So you can do stuff like this in nfdump?
> 
> ./flow- cat /var/netflow/ft/ft- v05.2010- 10* | ./flow- filter - Dnetwork | 
> ./flow- stat - f19 - S2 | more
> 
> To find a list of the top AS numbers sending you traffic?

More or less -  they support AS aggregation reports, assuming
you have AS data in the flow records, but you'd need to sort it
yourself afterwards.

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