RackSwitch G8000 Application Guide

Port Mirroring behavior

This section describes the composition of monitored packets in the switch, based on the configuration of the ports.

The following port-mirroring cases apply to the G8000:

„Ingress mirrored packets are not modified.

„Egress mirrored packets are tagged with the PVID of the egress port.

Configuring Port Mirroring

To configure port mirroring for the example shown in Figure A-1:

1.Specify the monitoring port, the mirroring port(s), and the port-mirror direction.

RS G8000 (config)# port-mirroring monitor-port 3 mirroring-port 2 in RS G8000 (config)# port-mirroring monitor-port 3

mirroring-port 12 out

2.Enable port mirroring.

RS G8000 (config)# port-mirroring enable

3.View the current configuration.

RS G8000# show port-mirroring

Port mirroring is enabled

Monitoring Ports

Mirrored Ports

1

none

2

none

3

(3, in) (12, out)

4

none

5

none

...

 

BMD00041, November 2008

Appendix A: Troubleshooting „ 141

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Blade ICE G8000 Port Mirroring behavior, Configuring Port Mirroring, Enable port mirroring, View the current configuration