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EdgeWarden technical guides
Step-by-step guides to export NetFlow, IPFIX and sFlow from your routers, tune sampling and timeouts, and troubleshoot collection before you rely on it during an attack.
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Basic
NetFlow v5, v9, IPFIX or sFlow? Which protocol to export to EdgeWarden
What each protocol carries, how much it delays DDoS detection and which one to configure in each scenario, on ports 2055 and 6343.
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Basic
How to export NetFlow v9 and IPFIX from MikroTik RouterOS v7 to EdgeWarden
RouterOS v7 Traffic Flow step by step: timeouts for fast detection, IPFIX target, fields, sampling, SNMP, and the FastTrack and hardware offload pitfalls.
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Intermediate
How to export IPFIX from a Juniper MX to EdgeWarden
Inline J-Flow on the Juniper MX step by step: IPv4 and IPv6 IPFIX templates, sampling instance, timeouts, and verification on the router and in EdgeWarden.
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Advanced
Advanced IPFIX: VRF, BGP next hop, tunnels and DPI in EdgeWarden
Which IPFIX fields feed VRF Visibility, Flow Explorer and Applications (DPI), what each vendor actually exports, and how to configure and verify it.
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Intermediate
How to export NetStream as IPFIX or NetFlow v9 from a Huawei NE40E/NE8000 to EdgeWarden
NetStream on VRP8 step by step: board processing mode, IPFIX or v9, announced sampling rate, timeouts, IPv6, and verification on the NE and in EdgeWarden.
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Basic
No flows showing up in EdgeWarden? A step-by-step troubleshooting checklist
From tcpdump to the license quota: an eight-step runbook to find out why your router's NetFlow, IPFIX or sFlow never reaches the EdgeWarden screens.
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Intermediate
Cisco Flexible NetFlow with IPFIX on IOS-XE and IOS-XR for EdgeWarden
Flow record, exporter, monitor and sampler on IOS-XE, maps on IOS-XR, the right timeouts, and how to validate collection on the router and in EdgeWarden.
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Intermediate
NetFlow and IPFIX sampling and timeouts without missing attacks
How the sampling rate, flow timeouts, and template refresh affect DDoS detection in EdgeWarden, with suggested values by link size.
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