[ixpmanager] Recommended Devices for an IXP with Sflow Feature

[Nick Hilliard (INEX)]

Ahmed Al-Saruri wrote on 18/08/2021 12:01:
> Hello Team,
> 
> Finding a good switch for the IXP is becoming a bit hard since some of 
> the devices like Nokia do not seem to be supporting sflow features.
> 
> My question here is  what type of devices do you use other than Huawei 
> and Arista that supports sflow and is a good option for an IXP?
> 
> Also if you have some device that does not support sflow, is there some 
> work around using other flow protocols to get ASN-to-ASN traffic graphs?

Hi Ahmed,

You can check out what other IXPs use here:

https://ixpdb.euro-ix.net/en/ixpdb/switches/

Note that some switch network operating systems "support sflow", but not 
very well.  E.g. they might not support enabling / disabling sflow on a 
per-interface basis, or might not provide the ability to select ingress 
vs egress sflow.

Nick