Re: 60 Gbp traffic monitoring with sflow

Simone Mainardi <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:25:35 +0100
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I would start experimenting with one in  6 * 2000 = 12 000 and see. Then you can adjust depending on the volume of traffic generated / possible load on the switches / detected sFlow drops.

> On 24 Mar 2019, at 15:55, Satish Patel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for reply,
> 
> Based on document 1Gbps = 2000 sample rate so in my case I have 80Gbps link speed and my traffic rate is 60Gbps so should I do 60x2000=120000? 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 23, 2019, at 3:32 AM, Simone Mainardi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Satish,
>> 
>> We have users doing 20+ Gbps with sFlow using the combination of nProbe + ntopng. sFlow is a sampling technology so, assuming sampling rates are configured opportunely, you won't have any issue.
>> 
>> See https://blog.sflow.com/2009/06/sampling-rates.html for recommended sampling rates.
>> 
>> For a guide on how to setup the collection using nProbe and ntopng see this blog post: https://www.ntop.org/nprobe/sflow-collection-and-analysis-with-nprobe-and-ntopng/
>> 
>> Simone
>> 
>>> On 21 Mar 2019, at 17:45, Satish Patel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>> We have 60Gbps peak bandwidth usage on our public with ISP and now i
>>> want to monitor data usage with sFlow and wanted understand that does
>>> ntopng can handle that level of traffic or sample rate?
>>> 
>>> Do i need any special configuration to handle this?
>>> Do i need special hardware ?
>>> 
>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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