[6bone] IPv6 traffic accounting

[Richard Furda]

Hello,

IP accounting and other accounting methods are quite primitive and
do not offer such flexibility as netflow. It appears as Netflow v9 supports 
IPv6.
I haven't tested it, although in v4 world Netflow provides more than one 
might need.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1829/products_feature_guide09186a00801341b2.html#1036433

Richard

At 04:44 PM 4/28/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:52:23PM +0200, Andree Toonk wrote:
>| Hello everyone,
>|
>| I would like to measure how much IPv6 traffic is passing a (Cisco) router.
>| does anyone know if this is possible with a recent IOS?
>| Would it be possible to do this with SNMP?
>I do not know if works and if so, how to do it on IOS. I'm very
>interrested in it nonetheless!
>
>| The same question for juniper, can I do IPv6 traffic accounting on a 
>juniper?
>Well on a Juniper you can count all traffic that is blocked (or passed)
>through a filter. In the 'then' clause of your statement, you can count
>traffic by stating 'set then count mycounter'. You can then view
>packet/octetcount simply by issuing a 'show firewall filter myfilter'.
>For example, in my case a filter 'f-re6' protects my routing engine. It
>has:
>
>term icmp6 {
>   from {
>     next-header [ icmp icmpv6 ];
>   }
>   then {
>     count icmp-acceptcount;
>     accept;
>   }
>}
>term else {
>   then {
>     count re6-dropcount;
>     log;
>     reject tcp-reset;
>   }
>}
>
>pim@jun1.kelvin# run show firewall filter f-re6
>Filter: f-re6
>Counters:
>Name                                                Bytes Packets
>icmp-acceptcount                                     3840      56
>re6-dropcount                                         640       8
>
>On JunOS, you cannot see what traffic _types_ pass through an interface.
>Typing something like "show interfaces ge-0/1/0.23 extensive" does give
>you stats (packets and octets as well as 5 minute averages), but this is
>a layer2 mechanism so it cannot offer you information on IPv4/IPv6. The
>only way I can think of is via filters (which may of course simply be of
>the form "from any to any then accept count mycounter", which is readable
>via SNMP. MIBs for JunOS filters are available. Note that SNMP and CLI
>polling of the filter counters is not realtime. The IP2 periodically (I
>do not know when, but every couple of seconds or so) sends the
>information to the RE, I think.
>
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