Re: [IPFIX] Export of long lived flow information

Paul Aitken <paitken@cisco.com> Wed, 24 October 2012 09:48 UTC

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John,

> I suspect I have been mis-interpreting your concept of "persistent 
> caches".

In a normal cache, the entries are eventually removed - because they've 
ended, or they've not seen traffic for an amount of time, or they're 
just too old, or there's simply not enough room in the cache.

Whereas in a permanent cache, the entries are never removed.

P.