Chapter 24

LFAP

Configuration

Guide

Overview

The Lightweight Flow Accounting Protocol (LFAP) agent, defined in RFC 2124, is a TCP- oriented protocol used to push accounting information collected on the SSR to a Flow Accounting Server (FAS). The LFAP agent uses ACLs to determine the IP traffic on which accounting information will be collected.

Traffic accounting in the network can help with the following:

Capacity planning

Application usage tracking

Cost apportioning by user or department

Server and resource usage

Traffic accounting is not intended for troubleshooting immediate network problems, enforcing company policies, or replacing the accounts payable system.

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