[netsa-tools-discuss] flowcap formats

[John Green]

On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 13:08 -0400, Mark Thomas wrote:
> > Perhaps this behaviour varies between vendors?
> 
> Yes, I believe Juniper handles this situation as you describe: by
> leaving the start-time as a constant.

Yes, these are the routers I am seeing this behaviour from. 

I'm struggling to see any advantages to this way of doing things.  It
obviously breaks any throughput calculations (eg rwcount) for flows
which last longer than the active timeout. 
 
Thanks
John

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