[c-nsp] SPAN (forwarding mirrored traffic)

[Carl Neenan]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:02:17 +0100, Niels Bakker
<niels=cisco-nsp at bakker.net> wrote:
> * 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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Thanks Niels

we are going to use the port mirror feature as we really need both Tx
and Rx.  Will be doing this work tomorrow so will let you guys know
how it went.

Regards

Carl