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From:   Don Gould <[email protected]>
To:     Craig Weinhold <[email protected]>
Dat


> Putting flows in SQL is certainly doable (especially on a home network), but 
> be forewarned that network flows aren't as simple as you'd like them to be 
> and the sheer volume of indexing all that data is significant. That's why 
> most packages rely on an aggregate data store like rrd for fast min/max/avg 
> histories, and then keep a month or so of raw flow files for running detailed 
> reports against.
>
ta.  yes, load is an issue... I'm working on a proof of concept.  The 
'home thing' really was just a use case to demonstrate an idea.

Just my two cents but flow traffic itself even on a busy net only amounts to 
apx 1% of total bandwidth.  Flows do not suck the life out of any equipment.  
Even under an attack some flows will get to your collector so you have a way to 
track most of what happened.

bigfoot.

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