Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:26:51PM -0500, James wrote: > J> > that was my thought initially, BUT.. actually... you can > J> > actually do this no problem using mrtd dumps and pick it up with a > J> > program via bgp device :P no need to create another api it seems :) > J> > J> errr??? I meant bpf device... > > Implementing traffic accounting like ip accounting or netflow through > a bpf is generally a bad idea, because of poor performance of such a solution. This is not the case. While common wisdom does indeed suggest that BPF is slow it is in fact not the case. We have a netflow-like per AS-number traffic accounting daemon which takes only 2-3% of the CPU on our core routers. We are currently preparing that software package for public release. -- AndreReceived on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 05:22:23 UTC
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