Configuring Port Mirroring, Enable port mirroring

BLADEOS 6.5.2 Application Guide

The G8124 supports three monitor ports. Each monitor port can receive mirrored traffic from any number of target ports.

BLADEOS does not support “one to many” or “many to many” mirroring models where traffic from a specific port traffic is copied to multiple monitor ports. For example, port 1 traffic cannot be monitored by both port 3 and 4 at the same time, nor can port 2 ingress traffic be monitored by a different port than its egress traffic.

Ingress and egress traffic is duplicated and sent to the monitor port after processing.

Configuring Port Mirroring

The following procedure may be used to configure port mirroring for the example shown in Figure 44 on page 377:

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

RS G8124(config)# port-mirroring monitor-port 3 mirroring-port 1 in RS G8124(config)# port-mirroring monitor-port 3 mirroring-port 2 both

2.Enable port mirroring.

RS G8124(config)# port-mirroring enable

3.View the current configuration.

RS G8124# show port-mirroring

Port Monitoring : Enabled

Monitoring Ports	Mirrored Ports
1	none
2	none
3	(1, in) (2, both)
4	none
5	none
6	none
7	none
8	none
9	none
10	none
...

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G8124-E, G8124 specifications

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Blade ICE G8124 Configuring Port Mirroring, Enable port mirroring, View the current configuration

Models: G8124-E G8124