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Configuring SPAN and RSPAN
This chapter describes how to configure Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) and Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
on your switch. To use the RSPAN feature described in this chapter, you must have the enhanced
software image (EI) installed on your switch.
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this chapter, refer to the command
reference for this release.
This chapter consists of these sections:
Understanding SPAN and RSPAN, page 20-1
Configuring SPAN, page 20-7
Configuring RSPAN, page 20-10
Displaying SPAN and RSPAN Status, page 20-14

Understanding SPAN and RSPAN

You can analyze network traffic passing through ports by using SPAN to send a copy of the traffic to
another port on the switch that has been connected to a SwitchProbe device or other Remote Monitoring
(RMON) probe. SPAN mirrors received or sent (or both) traffic on one or more source ports to a
destination port for analysis.
For example, in Figure20-1, all traffic on port 5 (the source port) is mirrored to port 10 (the destination
port). A network analyzer on port 10 receives all network traffic from port 5 wit hou t b eing phy sical ly
attached to port 5.