[flow-tools] Re: flow-tool and netflow v9

[frederic loui]

Hello All,

First of all...
Happy new year and my best wishes for 2003 !

Actually I donwloaded from www.cisco.com netflow v9 spec and asked cisco
more information related to v9 implementation.

The interesting thing (apart being template based) from the new netflow 
implementation is that it is "MPLS AWARE".
Pragmatically, it means that netflow will export :
-MPLS labels (up to 3 level of stacked label and their repective type 
FRR, VPN labels etc...
-positions of the above label in the stack
-type of the label
-IP address associated with the top label

These are interesting fields in an MPLS VPN environment.
especially when you want to build Traffic MATRIX per PE(Provider Edge 
router) and VPN(in the MPLS terminology) for example.

I'll try to adapt the code (your code) of flow-tools
in order to suit cisco v9 spec. ( if you don't mind of course ...)

If I can successfully understand and adapt the code of flow-tools,
I'll test it in our lab and I'll revert to you and provide you the code
using cvs if you want.
( It will take some times for me to take over your code,
hence you'll be probably quicker and better developer than me ;-) !!)

I you have any idea or if you've already begun to study v9 and IPFIX,
please let me know to what extend I can help you in developing 
flow-tools related to v9 protocol. ( if you feel that you need help of 
course ...)

By the way do you have other documentation related to flow-tools except 
the man page and the source code ? ( detailed spec, global spec, diagram 
etc ...)

Thanks in advance for your involvement
in such good product that represent flow-tools

Bgrds/Frederic

---------------------------------------------------------
maf@eng.oar.net wrote,

NetFlow V9 and/or IPFIX support will be added when the protocols are 
ready...

Are there any specific features of V9 you're looking for?

mark

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 10:48:12AM +0100, Frederic.Loui@equant.com wrote:
 > Hello all,
 >
 > Congratulation for flow-tools suite !
 > I've just 1 question, will flow-tools will support v9 version ?
 > I've heard that cisco is currently releasing a new (beta ?) IOS version.
 >
 > Bgrds/Frederic
 >
 >
 >
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