NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 2
Kentik
APRIL 18, 2016
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. These factors led to the development of a NetFlow/IPFIX alternative called sFlow®.
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