Maybe for layer 3 routing stuff). Basically netflow shows you traffic flow data (connection based stuff). SNMP shows counters. SNMP can be used for stuff like bytes/frames/packets in and out, CPU load ...

Flow data is already generated by most network devices. There has always been sufficient justification to collect and look at flow data if only to get a picture of what your network is being used for.

PROC NETFLOW solves network problems that can have side constraints. Certain algebraic features of networks are exploited by a specialized version of the Simplex method so that solution times are ...

Joining a slew of management vendors, AdventNet last week announced it would launch a NetFlow-based bandwidth-monitoring tool to help network administrators identify application traffic on their nets ...

Managing bandwidth needs and consumption is a discipline that has existed since the first 150bps modems connected computer systems together. Today, with multi-gigabit links becoming an everyday ...

I have a customer in the US that has work done overseas. We want to monitor / analyze / account for what exactly is being done and what network traffic is comming in and out on two interfaces of their ...