Re: [IPFIX] draft-ietf-ipfix-a9n

Brian Trammell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ipfix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 24, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Rahul Patel wrote:

>>>> Section 5.1.1 Distributing values across Interval
>>>> -------------------------------------------------
>>>> * should add 'synchronized expiry of Original Flows' - Under this
>>>> method
>>>> Flow C would be exported three times with start-time/end-time
>>>> matching the
>>>> aggregation interval start-time/end-time.
>> Make sense to me.
>>>> 
>>>> * There will always going to some original flows which will arrive late
>>>> and will not be accounted. It will be good have a cumulative counter of
>>>> such late arrivals on per template id (aggregated flow) basis. This
>>>> cumulative count should be periodically exported along with end-time
>>>> (time-of-snapshot). The counter will provide a degree of confidence
>>>> in the
>>>> data exported by the aggregator for each template.
>> So you want something similar to "The Metering Process Statistics Option
>> Template" from RFC5101, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5101#page-23, but
>> for the Aggregation Intermediate Aggregation Process, right?
> 
> [RP] exactly.

Still not convinced this is needed given the nature of active timeouts; however, that may well be an implementation-specific (or application-specific) opinion. 

In that case, I agree we should add it but I'm not convinced that this is an aggregation-specific thing. If you're going to count records that were dropped at an intermediate process due to missing a time window, couldn't this affect non-aggregation intermediate processes as well? How about adding this to MEDPROTO instead?

Best regards,

Brian
_______________________________________________
IPFIX mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipfix
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.