[j-nsp] Monitor traffic

Hannes Gredler hannes at juniper.net
Sat Jun 7 09:54:31 EDT 2003


On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:52:33PM +0800, Yuki Arif (EID) wrote:
| Hello all,
| 
| I am new in Juniper router. I have a question.
| 
| How do I monitor trafic which is on transit in interface cards ?

use port mirroring using a filter;
 
| I was told by someone that command "monitor traffic interface" is only monitoring traffic on the particular interface towards Routing Engine, not the transit traffic. Is it true ?
| 

correct; - monitor traffic <ifl> forks a instance of tcpdump on the RE
which only "sees" traffic going to/coming from the RE;

/hannes


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