[c-nsp] SPAN (forwarding mirrored traffic)

[Niels Bakker]

* gert at greenie.muc.de (Gert Doering) [Sun 20 Mar 2005, 22:56 CET]:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:11:33PM +0100, Niels Bakker wrote:
>> It'll suck, as on Foundry BigIron switches unknown unicast is handled
>> by the CPU.  
> Thanks for the warning.  Do the Foundry switches have any other way
> to solve the original poster's problem (effectively he needs a SPAN
> port functionality)?

Of course, mirror ports work.  Not aware of any silly limits (except
that you can't reliably mirror to a GigE port below 5 on a slot).


	-- Niels.

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