Figure 7-13. Storm Control Table

Defining Port Mirroring Sessions

Port mirroring monitors and mirrors network traffic by forwarding copies of incoming and outgoing packets from one port or a number of ports (source port or ports) to a monitoring (destination) port.

Port mirroring is configured by selecting a specific port to copy all packets, and different ports from which the packets copied. Before configuring Port Mirroring, note the following:

When a port is set to be a target port for a port-mirroring session, all normal operations on it are suspended. This includes Spanning Tree.

Before configuring Port Mirroring, note the following:

Monitored port cannot operate faster than the monitoring port.

All the RX/TX packets should be monitored to the same port.

The following restrictions apply to ports configured to be destination ports:

Ports cannot be configured as a source port.

Ports cannot be a LAG member.

IP interfaces are not configured on the port.

GVRP is not enabled on the port.

The port is not a VLAN member.

Only one destination port can be defined.

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