[ARGUS] PAPER: Building a Better Netflow

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Sat Aug 7 20:26:13 EDT 2004


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> 
> So without being tooooooo critical (my wife thinks I'm toooooo
> critical), this is not a good solution, not a good approach,
> not a good idea.  In section 1.3, Related work, the claim
> is made; "There are solutions for counting the number of
> flows at line speeds [14], but these count the total number
> of flows, and one cannot later recover the number of flows
> associated with specific aggregates of traffic out of the
> overall mix".  Argus, of course does this every day, at up
> to OC-192 speeds (well argus variants do this every day).
> 
> I have to respectfully disagree with the authors statements.
> 
> 
> Carter
> 

	That likely means we haven't done a good enough job about getting the
news about argus out there :-). Time for a paper on argus at the Internet 
measurements conference in your copious spare time :-)

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada



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