Re: [IPFIX] [Sender: [email protected]] RFC5101: time first flow dropped and time last flow dropped

On 20/09/2011 22:32, Paul Aitken wrote:
> Benoit,
>
>> 2. if the IPFIX exporter is configured from [IPFIX-CONF], what should 
>> be the value in meteringProcessId?
>>     [IPFIX-CONF] doesn't mention the meteringProcessId, but a cache 
>> name.
>
> IPFIX-CONF (or any configurer) wouldn't set the process ID; it's 
> read-only.
>
> The configurer would create the process (technically, add the config 
> which causes the process to be created by the OS), then could be told 
> (or could discover) what the process ID is.
> The cache name could be used to relate the given config to the process 
> ID.
Agreed.
>
>
>>     From figure 1 and 2, it seems that there is a one to one matching 
>> between the cache and the metering process.
>>     If this is the case, a solution could be to add a meteringProcess 
>> inside the cache in the figure 12 in [IPFIX-CONF] below
>
> Do you mean, a "meteringProcessId" (IANA #144) as a read-only property?
>
> And also an "exportingProcessId" (IANA #145) as a read-only property 
> in the ExportingProcess?
That would solve the issue.

Regards, Benoit.
>
> Those seem useful.
>
> P.

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