topic VSP 7400 IPFIX port assignment in ExtremeSwitching (VSP/Fabric Engine)

VSP 7400 IPFIX port assignment

MarioC — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:13:36 GMT

Hello Team,

We are upgrading our old AVAYA ERS 5632 switches to new Extreme VSP7400-48Y-8C running VOSS8.9.0.0.GA

On our old AVAYA 5632s we could specify which ports will be included in IPFIX tables.

<ip ipfix port X enable> as in example below

ip ipfix slot 1 aging-interval 60
ip ipfix export-interval 60 template-refresh-interval 600
ip ipfix collector 10.10.1.10 enable dest-port 2055
interface Ethernet ALL
ip ipfix port 1-2 enable
exit
ip ipfix enable

Does VSP7400 has similar option to enable specific ports for IPFIX available? We went through Extreme documentation and check if there is any available syntax option but we couldn't find useful info.

Your help will be very appreciated.

MarioC

Re: VSP 7400 IPFIX port assignment

Ludovico_Steven — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:06:51 GMT

No on the VSP7400 you enable ipfix globally, and it applies to all ports. No worries since the 7400 can do linerate ipfix on all ports!

On the ERS5600 that was not the case... from an old knowledge transfer document, this is how ipfix was done on ERS:

–If a single port was selected, packets will be sampled every second.

–If all ports were selected, sampling will happen on all ports that have link, but for one port at a time. We will rotate sampling on all ports that have link up. Therefore every port will be given a sampling window of 1 second.

Hence why ipfix would be configurable per port on the ERS range.