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Chapter29 Configuring SPAN and RSPAN Configuring SPAN and RSPAN
•You can apply an output ACL to RSPAN traffic to selectively filter or monitor specific packets.
Specify these ACLs on the RSPAN VLAN in the RSPAN source switches.
•For RSPAN configuration, you can distribute the source ports and the destination ports across
multiple switches in your network.
•RSPAN does not support BPDU packet monitoring or other Layer 2 switch protocols.
•The RSPAN VLAN is configured only on trunk ports and not on access ports. To avoid unwanted
traffic in RSPAN VLANs, make sure that the VLAN remote-span feature is supported in all the
participating switches.
•Access ports (including voice VLAN ports) on the RSPAN VLAN are put in the inactive state.
•RSPAN VLANs are included as sources for port-based RSPAN sessions when source trunk ports
have active RSPAN VLANs. RSPAN VLANs can also be sources in SPAN sessions. Howev er , since
the switch does not monitor spanned traffic, it does not support egress spanni ng of p acket s on a ny
RSPAN VLAN identified as the destination of an RSPAN source session on the switch.
•You can configure any VLAN as an RSPAN VLAN as long as these conditions are met:
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The same RSPAN VLAN is used for an RSPAN session in all the switches.
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All participating switches support RSPAN.
•We recommend that you configure an RSPAN VLAN before you configure an RSPAN source or a
destination session.
•If you enable VTP and VTP pruning, RSPAN traffic is pruned in the trunks to pre v ent th e unwant ed
flooding of RSPAN traffic across the network for VLAN IDs that are lower than 1005.
Configuring a VLAN as an RSPAN VLAN
First create a new VLAN to be the RSPAN VLAN for the RSPAN session. You must create the RSPAN
VLAN in all switches that will participate in RSPAN. If the RSPAN VLAN-ID is in the normal range
(lower than 1005) and VTP is enabled in the network, you can create the RSPAN VLAN in one switch,
and VTP propagates it to the other switches in the VTP domain. For extended-range VLANs (greater
than 1005), you must configure RSPAN VLAN on both source and destination switches and any
intermediate switches.
Use VTP pruning to get an efficient flow of RSPAN traf fic, or manually delete the RSPAN VLAN from
all trunks that do not need to carry the RSPAN traffic.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to create an RSPAN VLAN:
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 vlan vlan-id Enter a VLAN ID to create a VLAN, or enter the VLAN ID of an
existing VLAN, and enter VLAN configuration mode. The range is
2 to 1001 and 1006 to 4094.
The RSPAN VLAN cannot be VLAN 1 (the default VLAN) or VLAN
IDs 1002 through 1005 (reserved for Token Ring and FDDI VLANs).
Step3 remote-span Configure the VLAN as an RSPAN VLAN.
Step4 end Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step5 copy running-config startup-config (Optional) Save the configuration in the configuration file.