Talaia Networks Blog Adding NetFlow Support to a Network with an EdgeRouter PoE

Any router vendor worth its salt supports NetFlow (or IPFIX, or sFlow, or compatible protocols). However, in practice, sometimes NetFlow is simply not available. In our experience, this happens for two main reasons: A consumer-grade router is installed in a small office or remote location.A suitable router that does implement NetFlow is available, but it is externally managed, and the service provider won't enable it, because it's out of the scope of their contract.Either way, because of a technical limitation or otherwise, how does one go about gaining network visibility in such a scenario? In this post, we propose a simple, inexpensive solution to add NetFlow to an existing network, and send this NetFlow to Talaia's collector.