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From: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Roman Tsisyk <roman@tsisyk.com>,
	Stig Thormodsrud <stig@vyatta.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	Holger Eitzenberger <heitzenberger@astaro.com>
Subject: Re: NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX network probe proposal
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 16:46:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100401144617.GG19153@mail.eitzenberger.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB4AEA6.5000102@trash.net>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 14:06 NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX network probe proposal Roman Tsisyk
2010-03-30 14:29 ` Changli Gao
2010-03-30 14:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-30 15:57   ` Roman Tsisyk
2010-03-30 16:07     ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-03-30 16:39   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-03-31 13:47     ` Roman Tsisyk
2010-04-01 10:22       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-01 12:05         ` Holger Eitzenberger
2010-04-01 14:29           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2010-04-01 14:33             ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-01 14:46               ` Holger Eitzenberger [this message]
2010-04-01 14:55                 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-01 16:56                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-08 14:55 ` Florian Weimer

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