Jakub Wartak schrieb:
>> I am sniffing the traffic from a port which mirrors the port which the
>> router is bound to, so I think I am monitoring both sides of all the
>> traffic generated by the router, is it correct?
> 
> It should be correct, but some switches allow to mirror for example only rx 
> or 
> tx or both sides of some ethernet ports - therefore i'm asking..

And if you are monitoring both directions you have to make sure that either
the monitored port is never more than 50% busy, or the mirroring port has to
have at least double the bandwidth as the monitored port, as the traffic of
both directions has to go out in one direction.

Cheers,

Sven


-- 
Sven Anderson
Institute for Informatics - http://www.ifi.informatik.uni-goettingen.de
Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen
Lotzestr. 16-18, 37083 Goettingen, Germany

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