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sFlow
Table 118 displays the individual Brocade devices and the sFlow features they support.
sFlow is a system for collecting information about traffic flow patterns and quantities within and
among a set of devices. You can configure a device to perform the following tasks:
• Sample packet flows
• Collect packet headers from sampled packets to gather ingress and egress information on
these packets
• Compose flow sample messages from the collected information
• Relay messages to an external device known as a collector
Participating devices can also relay byte and packet counter data (counter samples) for ports to the
collector.
The port connected to the collector forwards sFlow packets in management VRF and default VRF.
The Brocade implementation of sFlow data collection supports AS path information in the following
types of sFlow packets:
TABLE 118 Supported Brocade sFlow features
Features
supported Brocade
NetIron XMR Brocade
MLX series Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
BASE
package Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
ME_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron CES
2000 Series
L3_PREM
package Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Base
package Brocade
NetIron CER
2000 Series
Advanced
Services
package
sFlow (RFC
3176) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
sFlow (v5
Support) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
sFlow Support
on MPLS L2/3
VPN Endpoints Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes
sFlow Sampling
for the Null0
Interface Yes Yes No No No No No
sFlow CLI
Command Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
sFlow Support
on MPLS
Uplinks No No No Yes No No Yes
ACL-based
sFlow Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
AS path clean
up timer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes