[150682] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu Mar 1 07:52:07 2012
To: "A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi@gmail.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:51:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAHGyo+8W5J99i44auQQjDghLC+kXwsqJDqU+B0XXNTi0vV2E9w@mail.gmail.com> (A.
Pishdadi's message of "Thu, 1 Mar 2012 01:12:43 -0600")
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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"A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
http://www.netoptics.com/products/regeneration-taps
Been reasonably happy with these on 100m and gigabit links in the
past, can't imagine that their 10g products don't work just as well.
-r
