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RE: Why do you use Netflow

  • From: Mark Borchers
  • Date: Tue Aug 19 16:58:24 2003 
> > > What are you looking at when you analyze this data?  I've 
> seen uses 
> > > such as top 10 destination AS's for peering evaluations.  
> What else?  
> > > Billing?
> > >
> > > -Lance-
> >
> > Also to get some application-specific bandwidth utilization numbers.
> >
> I wonder how do you map your netflow data to applications?
> (if I understood correctly what you�re saying)

The caveat is that Netflow is useful for this purpose on a
smallish test/research network, in which port numbers and/or
combinations of port numbers and server addresses correllate to 
an application, which is what I happen to be doing.  Naturally 
on a public backbone you'd want to substitute "port-specific" 
for "application-specific".