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Chapter 30 Configuring SPAN and RSPAN
How to Configure SPAN and RSPAN
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. However, since
the switch does not monitor spanned traffic, it does not support egress spanni ng of packets on any
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:
The same RSPAN VLAN is used for an RSPAN session in all the switches.
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 prevent the unwanted
flooding of RSPAN traffic across the network for VLAN IDs that are lower than 1005.

Default SPAN and RSPAN Settings

How to Configure SPAN and RSPAN

Creating a Local SPAN Session

Tab l e 30-1 Default SPAN and RSPAN Settings
Feature Default Setting
SPAN state (SPAN and RSPAN) Disabled.
Source port traffic to monitor Both received and sent traffic (both).
Encapsulation type (destination port) Native form (untagged packets).
Ingress forwarding (destination port) Disabled,
VLAN filtering On a trunk interface used as a source port, all VLANs are
monitored.
RSPAN VLANs None configured.
Command Purpose
Step 1 configure terminal Enters global configuration mode.
Step 2 no monitor session {session_number | all |
local | remote}
Removes any existing SPAN configuration for the session.
session_number—The range is 1 to 66.
Specify all to remove all SPAN sessions, local to remove all local
sessions, or remote to remove all remote SPAN sessions.