On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 09:04:36AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Paolo Lucente wrote: > > > OTOH it would be nice to see one day those NetFlow v9 MAC address fields > > populated on higher-grade boxes, say, to facilitate analysis of public > > peering at internet exchanges ... > > This can be done with mac accounting in your platform. It may require > ordering the right PIC in this case, but is easy to collect that data.
MAC accounting is not a solution, except for basic things, for at least two reasons: 1) it is coarse-grained and 2) its segregation from flow accounting prevents having all the eggs in one basket. Cheers, Paolo
