VPP: Monitoring 100Gbps+ with sFlow

February 2, 2025 12:35pm - 12:45pm CET
Video PPT

This talk describes the author’s work on an sFlow plugin for a popular userspace dataplane called VPP], and how it can be used to do statistical packet sampling with very high rates using the sFlow protocol.

An integration with ntopng and Akvorado will be demonstrated.

Speakers

Pim van Pelt
Pim van Pelt - PBVP1-RIPE - started his career as a network engineer in the Netherlands, where he worked for Intouch, Freeler, and BIT. He helped raise awareness for IPv6, for example by launching it at AMS-IX back in 2001 and by operating SixXS, a global IPv6 tunnel broker, from 2001 through to its sunset in 2017. Since 2006, Pim works as a Distinguished SRE at Google in Zurich, Switzerland. In his free time, he goes [Geocaching], contributes to open source projects, and flies model helicopters. He also works on VPP and runs AS8298 across Europe.