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Chapter30 Configuring SPAN and RSPAN
Understanding SPAN and RSPAN
These sections contain this conceptual information:
•Local SPAN, page 30-2
•Remote SPAN, page 30-3
•SPAN and RSPAN Concepts and Terminology, page 30-4
•SPAN and RSPAN Interaction with Other Features, page 30-9
•SPAN and RSPAN and Switch Stacks, page 30-10
Local SPAN
Local SPAN supports a SPAN session entirely within one switch; all source ports or source VLANs and
destination ports are in the same switch or switch stack. Local SPAN copies traffic from one or more
source ports in any VLAN or from one or more VLANs to a destina tion port for analysis. For example,
in Figure30-1, all traffic on port 5 (the source port) is mirrored to port 10 (the destinatio n port). A
network analyzer on port 10 receives all network traffic from port 5 without being physically attached
to port 5.
Figure30-1 Example of Local SPAN Configuration on a Single Switch
Figure 30-2 is an example of a local SPAN in a switch stack, where the source and destination ports
reside on different stack members.
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