Using A Sniffer Port To Monitor Traffic - NETGEAR GS748TS-100NAS User Manual

Removing Port Trunks
1. From the main Navigation Pane menu, select: Switch
is displayed.
2. Uncheck the appropriate boxes against the port numbers in the table.
3. Click Apply to save the settings.

Using a Sniffer Port to Monitor Traffic

The Monitor feature enables you to configure traffic from any number of ports to be copied
(mirrored) to your selected "sniffer" port, which may be any port that is not a source port. This
traffic may be selected from transmitted (egress) frames, received (ingress) frames or all frames.
Sniffing may be disabled globally.
To configure a sniffer port:
1. From the main Navigation Pane menu, select: Switch
displayed.
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2. From the Sniffer Mode drop-down list box, select Rx, Tx, Both, or Disable. Disable clears
any prior settings.
3. Using the Sniffer Port pull-down menu, select a monitoring port.
4. Click on the boxes in the table to select the ports to be monitored.
Configuring the Switch
→
Trunking; The Trunk Setting table
→
Monitor; The trunk Setting table is
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