[c-nsp] RSPAN question...

Benjamin Lovell belovell at cisco.com
Tue Mar 1 09:47:42 EST 2011


Assuming that you can turn off MAC learning in a vlan on your vanilla  
switch, then yes. Otherwise, no.

-Ben


On Mar 1, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:

> Can you pass an RSPAN vlan through a "vanilla" switch that isn't  
> RSPAN aware?
>
> I know the "source" and "destination" switches for an RSPAN session  
> must obviously be
> RSPAN-aware, but can you pass the RSPAN vlan through a non- 
> participating switch?
>
> I have a remote that is connected through an old 3508XL fiber  
> aggregation point, the
> remote end and the core both support RSPAN, but to monitor anything  
> at the remote site I
> need to pass the RSPAN vlan through the 3508XL (which doesn't  
> support RSPAN).
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Jeff
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