draft-phaal-sflow-montraffic

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Date:	29-Mar-2004
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        RFC 3176

        Title:      InMon Corporation's sFlow: A Method for Monitoring
                    Traffic in Switched and Routed Networks
        Author(s):  P. Phaal, S. Panchen, N. McKee
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       September 2001
        Mailbox:    peter_phaal@INMON.COM, sonia_panchen@INMON.COM,
                    neil_mckee@INMON.COM 
        Pages:      31
        Characters: 60171
        Updates/Obsoletes/See Also:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-phaal-sflow-montraffic-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3176.txt


This memo defines InMon Corporation's sFlow system.  sFlow is a
technology for monitoring traffic in data networks containing switches
and routers.  In particular, it defines the sampling mechanisms
implemented in an sFlow Agent for monitoring traffic, the sFlow MIB
for controlling the sFlow Agent, and the format of sample data used by
the sFlow Agent when forwarding data to a central data collector.

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