[150676] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terry Baranski)
Thu Mar 1 05:53:42 2012
From: "Terry Baranski" <terry.baranski.list@gmail.com>
To: "'A. Pishdadi'" <apishdadi@gmail.com>,
"'NANOG'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGyo+8W5J99i44auQQjDghLC+kXwsqJDqU+B0XXNTi0vV2E9w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 05:52:44 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 1, 2012, at 02:13 AM, apishdadi@gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
We like Gigamon for this purpose.
-Terry
