Specification of the IP Flow Information eXport (IPFIX) Protocol for the Exchange of Flow Information
draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-08
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Document | Type | Active Internet-Draft (ipfix WG) | |
Authors | BenoƮt Claise , Brian Trammell | ||
Last updated | 2013-07-04 (latest revision 2013-06-13) | ||
Replaces | draft-claise-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Intended RFC status | Internet Standard | ||
Formats | pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | WG Document | |
Document shepherd | Juergen Quittek | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2013-05-28) | ||
IESG | IESG state | IESG Evaluation | |
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Responsible AD | Joel Jaeggli | ||
Send notices to | ipfix-chairs@tools.ietf.org, draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis@tools.ietf.org | ||
IANA | IANA review state | IANA OK - Actions Needed |
Network Working Group B. Claise, Ed. Internet Draft Cisco Systems, Inc. Obsoletes: 5101 B. Trammell, Ed. Category: Standards Track ETH Zurich Expires: December 15, 2013 June 13, 2013 Specification of the IP Flow Information eXport (IPFIX) Protocol for the Exchange of Flow Information draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-rfc5101bis-08 Abstract This document specifies the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) protocol that serves for transmitting Traffic Flow information over the network. In order to transmit Traffic Flow information from an Exporting Process to a Collecting Process, a common representation of flow data and a standard means of communicating them is required. This document describes how the IPFIX Data and Template Records are carried over a number of transport protocols from an IPFIX Exporting Process to an IPFIX Collecting Process. This document obsoletes RFC 5101. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on August 22, 2013. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents Claise, Trammell, eds. Standards Track [Page 1] Internet-Draft IPFIX Protocol Specification June 13, 2013 (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1. Changes since RFC 5101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2. IPFIX Documents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1. Terminology Summary Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. IPFIX Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.1. Message Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.2. Field Specifier Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.3. Set and Set Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.3.1. Set Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.3.2. Set Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.4. Record Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.4.1. Template Record Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.4.2. Options Template Record Format . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.4.2.1. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.4.2.2. Options Template Record Format . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.4.3. Data Record Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4. Specific Reporting Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 4.1. The Metering Process Statistics Options Template . . . . . 25 4.2. The Metering Process Reliability Statistics Options Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.3. The Exporting Process Reliability Statistics Options Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.4. The Flow Keys Options Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5. Timing Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5.1 IPFIX Message Header Export Time and Flow Record Time . . . 29 5.2 Supporting Timestamp Wraparound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6. Linkage with the Information Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6.1. Encoding of IPFIX Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6.1.1. Integral Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Show full document text