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NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 2

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While NetFlow v9 and it’s follow-on protocol IPFIX offer tremendous flexibility there are some tradeoffs including complexity of implementation and the fact that a template must be received before the underlying flow data records can be correctly understood. That still leaves the issue of what’s the best form to use for the extended data.