Deploying Sensors With Ge Ports In External Tap Mode - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Deployment Manual

McAfee® Network Security Platform 6.0 Sensor Deployment Modes
The internal taps of these three Sensors fail open; thus if the Sensor should fail, data will
continue to flow unimpeded.
You can easily reconfigure the 10/100 monitoring ports of the I-1200, I-1400 and I-2700 to
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disable the internal tap and monitor in In-line Mode at any time via McAfee Network
Security Manager (Manager). This process is described in the section, Shifting from tap
mode to in-line mode (on page 21). When in-line, the Sensor can block malicious traffic
from reaching its intended target host.
Figure 8: I-2700 Sensor: Internal Tap Mode

Deploying Sensors with GE ports in external tap mode

Sensors with GE monitoring ports require external taps. The external taps are full-duplex;
they connect in-line with the network segment, copy the traffic, and send the copies to the
Sensor for analysis.
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