On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:01:36 -0700
Dev <[email protected]> wrote:

> I built a transparent bridge on a Debian platform earlier running fq_codel 
> between eth2 and eth3 as br0 which seemed to improve throughput. 
> 
> Now, I’m wondering if there’s a way to copy some of those packets to another 
> onboard NIC eth4 for analysis on another box on the network. How significant 
> of a performance hit will this be on commodity hardware on my bridge 
> throughput, and/or what is best practices? Has anyone already done this and 
> made it work?

It is possible to do this with ingress qdisc and a mirred filter to mirror 
packets to another device. That is the Linux way to create SPAN ports on a 
bridge.
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