Dimension ES-2008 Ethernet Switch

Chapter 11

Port Mirroring

This introduces the port mirroring or port sniffer feature of the switch.

11.1 Introduction

You can monitor traffic on the ports by duplicating or mirroring the traffic to a port. You can monitor input traffic, output traffic or both. A port that mirrors the traffic of other ports is the analysis port or the sniffer port. A port whose traffic is analyzed is the monitor port or the source port.

You can configure up to nine monitor ports but only one mirror port.

11.2 Configuring Port Mirroring

Click Administrator and then Port Mirroring to display the screen shown next.

Figure 11-1 Port Mirroring

Follow the instructions in the table next to configure this screen.

Port Mirroring

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