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RE: accounting software (free or $$$)

  • From: Gary Blankenship
  • Date: Wed Dec 05 07:38:59 2001

Jan:

InMon Traffic Server does sFlow (RFC3176), NetFlow, and XRMON.
Demonstration is at www.inmon.com/its.  

Foundry implements XRMON in the JetCore ASIC.  Every port can become an
XRMON/sFlow probe.  You can set the sampling rate to sample off every
port in real time with sFlow.  SNMP data is piggybacked/pushed (not
polled) with sFlow data.  Unlike NetFlow, you can implement this on
every port without a performance impact. InMon Traffic Server becomes a
real time tool in this instance.  I think this is better than NetFlow
(whitepapers from statisticians convinced me), but we do NetFlow too. 

Regardless, I believe it is reasonably priced and you can download a 30
day eval to see if it meets your NetFlow needs.  It installs on RedHat
and it doesn't take long to get it up and running.

42.3% of all statistics are made up on the fly...

Gary
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of
> Jan-Ahrent Czmok
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 8:50 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: accounting software (free or $$$)
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> i am looking some kind of software for a customer of mine.
> 
> it should do either netflow or ip accounting collection from cisco.
> 
> it should produce individual customer views (like /23 network) based
on
> that accounting.
> 
> a lot of products exist, but nothings fits the "normal small isp
needs"
> 
> can anyone make me a recommendation for a linux based software either
open
> source or $$$.
> 
> 
> --jan