[150674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (A. Pishdadi)
Thu Mar 1 03:55:44 2012
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From: "A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:54:18 -0600
To: "gwood83@gmail.com" <gwood83@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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No the issue isnt monitoring many ports at once, its having more then 1 set
of monitoring or 2 sets in the 6500 case. So I am monitoring say port
channel 1 to ports 1 2 3 4, and port channel 2 , ports 4 5 6 and 7. After
that I cannot monitor anymore ports.
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:34 AM, gwood83@gmail.com <gwood83@gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead of monitoring the physical interface, monitor the vlan from a
> Cisco IOS perspective on a CAT6500. This will capture all physical
> interfaces associated with that vlan for mirroring/span.
>
> HTH
>
> Jonathan
> #22744
>
> Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Feb 29, 2012 11:12 pm
> Subject: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports
> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
>
> Hello All,
>
> We are looking for a switch or a device that we can use for mirroring tap
> ports. For example , take a mirror port off of a core router say a 6509,
> connect it to a port on said device, say port 1. I would like then to be
> able to mirror port 1 on said device to multiple ports, like port 2 , 3,
> 4. We have the need to analyze traffic from one port on multiple devices.
> Seems most switches are limited to mirroring to a max of 1 or 2 ports.
>
>
> Any suggestions would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Ameen
>
>
>
