Re: NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX network probe proposal

[Holger Eitzenberger <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 04:33:10PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> >> Some bits and pieces may be missing on the kernel side if you need to
> >> classify your flows though.  E. g. some IPFIX Aggregrators require the
> >> DSCP value for that.
> 
> Adding DSCP doesn't work since we don't distinguish connections
> by that.

That patch would be easy, but I was unsure at that time whether DSCP was a
"flow characteristic" enough, especially as you have something like the
Netfilter DSCP target to modify it, and that possibly be done not from
the very start of a flow.

 /holger

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html