NETGEAR GS748TS-100NAS, GS748TNA Using a Sniffer Port to Monitor Traffic, Removing Port Trunks

GS748T Software User Manual

Removing Port Trunks

1.From the main Navigation Pane menu, select: Switch → Trunking; The Trunk Setting table is displayed.

2.Uncheck the appropriate boxes against the port numbers in the table.

3.Click Apply to save the settings.

Using a Sniffer Port to Monitor Traffic

The Monitor feature enables you to configure traffic from any number of ports to be copied (mirrored) to your selected “sniffer” port, which may be any port that is not a source port. This traffic may be selected from transmitted (egress) frames, received (ingress) frames or all frames. Sniffing may be disabled globally.

To configure a sniffer port:

1.From the main Navigation Pane menu, select: Switch → Monitor; The trunk Setting table is displayed.

Figure 4-13

2.From the Sniffer Mode drop-down list box, select Rx, Tx, Both, or Disable. Disable clears any prior settings.

3.Using the Sniffer Port pull-down menu, select a monitoring port.

4.Click on the boxes in the table to select the ports to be monitored.

Configuring the Switch 4-13

v2.0, April 2007