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For questions about sFlow, short for "sampled flow", is an industry standard for packet export at Layer 2 of the OSI model. It provides a means for exporting truncated packets, together with interface counters for the purpose of network monitoring.

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How to calculate traffic in bytes from sFlow datagrams?

I want to approximate network traffic in bytes by writing a sFlow collector that receives sFlow datagrams, parses them, extracts key information only and applies a formula that summarizes the traffic in …
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How to calculate traffic in bytes from sFlow datagrams?

The frame_length field is defined on page 35 of the sFlow version 5 spec, https://sflow.org/sflow_version_5.txt unsigned int frame_length; /* Original length of packet before … unsigned int sampling_rate; /* sFlowPacketSamplingRate */ A simple way of calculating bytes for an sFlow data source is to sum the frame_length values and multiply by the sampling rate. …
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