Hi,

While troubleshooting a reachability problem, I configured a PW SPAN session on 
the upstream A9K (XR 4.3.4 & Trident based SPAN source port) but noticed that 
it didn't actually mirror all traffic.  As a test, I inserted an ME3600, in 
bridge mode, in between the source host and the upstream A9K, then did the span 
on the ingress ME3600 port instead.  At that point, I saw the traffic that was 
missing on the A9K.  Analyzing the missing traffic revealed an invalid 
destination MAC address.  I'm presuming that the invalid destination MAC 
address caused the A9K to drop the packet before it was mirrored.  That said, 
my understanding of SPAN is that a box will always mirror the packet before 
processing it, so I should have seen the packet on the A9K span session if this 
had been the behaviour.  Am I off?

Thanks!
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