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PORT CONFIGURATION

CLI – Specify any interface, and then enter the threshold. The following disables broadcast storm control for port 1, and then sets broadcast suppression at 600 octets per second for port 2 (which applies to all ports).

Console(config)#interface ethernet 1/1		4-146
Console(config-if)#no switchport broadcast		4-152
Console(config-if)#exit
Console(config)#interface ethernet 1/2
Console(config-if)#switchport broadcast octet-rate 600		4-152
Console(config-if)#end
Console#show interfaces switchport ethernet 1/2		4-157
Information of Eth 1/2
Broadcast threshold:	Enabled, 600 octets/second
Lacp status:	Enabled
Ingress rate limit: disable, Level: 30
Egress rate limit: disable, Level: 30
VLAN membership mode:	Hybrid
Ingress rule:	Disabled
Acceptable frame type:	All frames
Native VLAN:	1
Priority for untagged traffic:	0
Gvrp status:	Disabled
Allowed Vlan:	1(u),
Forbidden Vlan:
Private-VLAN mode:	NONE
Private-VLAN host-association:	NONE
Private-VLAN mapping:	NONE
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Configuring Port Mirroring

You can mirror traffic from any source port to a target port for real-time analysis. You can then attach a logic analyzer or RMON probe to the target port and study the traffic crossing the source port in a completely unobtrusive manner.

Source	Single
port(s)	target
	port

Command Usage

•Monitor port speed should match or exceed source port speed, otherwise traffic may be dropped from the monitor port.

•When mirroring port traffic, the target port must be included in the same VLAN as the source port.

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SMC Networks TigerSwitch manual Configuring Port Mirroring, 111

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