Re: [IPFIX] Flow in IPFIX -> not only IP Flows

Brian Trammell <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:27:43 +0100

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Hi, Paul.

Of course, if you get rid of IP and Flow out of the title, you're just left with IX, and now we're colliding with entirely different acronyms. :)

But this is a good point, and I'll use it in the future.

Cheers,

Brian

On Feb 24, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Paul Aitken wrote:

> Brian,
> 
>> Honestly, I think the larger problem we have on this point is with the name of the protocol: with the IP right up front in the first two letters, it'll be hard to sell as a layer 2 measurement protocol. :)
> 
> The existing IANA elements show that it can measure metrics at any layer. Even "flow" isn't so relevant these days.
> 
> So IPFIX isn't export _of_ IP, it's export _over_ IP.
> 
> P.

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