To open the Port Mirroring page, click Switch Ports Port Mirroring in the tree view.

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 and LACP.

Figure 7-27. Port Mirroring

The Port Mirroring page contains the following fields:

Destination Port — The port number to which port traffic is copied.

Transmit Packets — Defines the how the packets are mirrored. The possible field values are:

Untagged — Mirrors packets as untagged vlan packets. This is the default value.

Tagged — Mirrors packets as tagged vlan packets.

Source Ports

Source Port — Defines the port number from which port traffic is mirrored.

Type — Indicates if the mirrored packets are RX, TX, or both RX and TX. The possible field values are:

RxOnly — Defines the port mirroring on receiving ports. This is the default value.

TxOnly — Defines the port mirroring on transmitting ports.

Tx and Rx — Defines the port mirroring on both receiving and transmitting ports.

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