Michael Patterson : Advanced NetFlow Traffic Analysis
Michael Patterson
Founder and Product manager for Plixer's Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer as well as Flow Analytics.

July 2015

You are browsing the archive for July 2015.

IPFIX Flow Direction and Packet Counters

July 8, 2015

In the world of NetFlow and IPFIX, flow direction is a topic that can confuse some of the best technical minds. It is an important concept in relation to routers because where information (e.g. byte counters) is gathered can have a significant impact on perceived accuracy.  This is sort of 3 part blog.  Although it isn't totally necessary, it might help the reader to understand a different type of flow directionality first as posted in my other blog. 

Featured Events