[74594] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing sniffed traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Thu Oct 7 16:44:23 2004
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:43:47 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Patrick Arguello <arguello_patrick@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041007093939.90463.qmail@web54101.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi Peter,
if you are feeding this into a switch you should be able to switch it just like
the real traffic.. ie plug your fibers into gbics on whatever switch you want to
use, i dont see any special requirements for this application
Steve
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Patrick Arguello wrote:
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> In my datacenter, I have three Gig links coming in
> that I am sniffing using passive taps. What I want to
> do is feed these links into a layer 3 switch so that I
> can have them sent to different packet analysis boxes
> by destination address or packet types or ports. What
> should I look for in a switch for such a use --
> something that can take in sniffed traffic on fiber
> gig links and parcel them out to different servers on
> copper gig links based on routing rules.
>
> Please email me your recommendation or suggestion
> directly and I will summarize what I find out for the
> list.
>
> Thanks,
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> Patrick A.
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