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Chapter 16 Mirroring

16.2 RMirror

RMirror lets you redirect data flows that you monitor on a source switch to a different destination switch, which allows a centralized network analyzer or probe to capture packets for an entire LAN. Because traffic flows are not directly copied to monitor port, but reflected on a designed RMirror VLAN. RMirror make distance remote source switch possible that port-mirroring traffic can be monitored by different switches supported RMirror feature.

16.2.1 RMirror Overview

RMirror feature supported:

•Remote mirroring of ingress and egress traffic.

•Control packets mirrored.

•Two types of source switch for different requirements.

•CLI, WEB and MIB interface of configuration

•RMirror VLAN traffic priority setup

Before you start setting RMirror VLAN, you should know all the roles of switch in the network.

•Source switch:

The port traffic mirrored on RMirror VLAN.

•Intermediate switch:

Forwarding traffic from source switch to destination switch. The intermediate switch can not only be our switch device, other supplier switch device is suitable for use.

•Destination switch:

Monitor traffic from source switch. The destination switch can not only be our switch device, other supplier switch device is suitable for use.

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