No the issue isnt monitoring many ports at once, its having more then 1 set of monitoring or 2 sets in the 6500 case. So I am monitoring say port channel 1 to ports 1 2 3 4, and port channel 2 , ports 4 5 6 and 7. After that I cannot monitor anymore ports.
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:34 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Instead of monitoring the physical interface, monitor the vlan from a > Cisco IOS perspective on a CAT6500. This will capture all physical > interfaces associated with that vlan for mirroring/span. > > HTH > > Jonathan > #22744 > > Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint! > > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "A. Pishdadi" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Feb 29, 2012 11:12 pm > Subject: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports > To: "NANOG" <[email protected]> > > Hello All, > > We are looking for a switch or a device that we can use for mirroring tap > ports. For example , take a mirror port off of a core router say a 6509, > connect it to a port on said device, say port 1. I would like then to be > able to mirror port 1 on said device to multiple ports, like port 2 , 3, > 4. We have the need to analyze traffic from one port on multiple devices. > Seems most switches are limited to mirroring to a max of 1 or 2 ports. > > > Any suggestions would be great. > > Thanks, > Ameen > > >
