Remote Port Mirroring - Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6800 Series Network Configuration Manual

Diagnosing Switch Problems

Remote Port Mirroring

Remote Port Mirroring expands the port mirroring functionality by allowing mirrored traffic to be carried
over the network to a remote switch. With Remote Port Mirroring the traffic is carried over the network
using a dedicated Remote Port Mirroring VLAN, no other traffic is allowed on this VLAN. The mirrored
traffic from the source switch is tagged with the VLAN ID of the Remote Port Mirroring VLAN and
forwarded over the intermediate switch ports to the destination switch where an analyzer is attached.
Note. Remote Port Mirroring is supported only on OS6850 and OS9000 Series switches.
Since Remote Port Mirroring requires traffic to be carried over the network, the following exceptions to
regular port mirroring exist:
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Spanning Tree must be disabled for the Remote Port Mirroring VLAN on all switches.
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There must not be any physical loop present in the Remote Port Mirroring VLAN.
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On the intermediate and destination switches, source learning must be disabled or overridden on the
ports belonging to the Remote Port Mirroring VLAN.
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The QoS redirect feature can be used to override source learning on an OmniSwitch.
The following types of traffic will not be mirrored:
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Link Aggregation Control Packets (LACP)
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802.1AB (LLDP)
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802.1x port authentication
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802.3ag (OAM)
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Layer 3 control packets
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Generic Attribute Registration Protocol (GARP)
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BPDUs will not be mirrored on OS6850s but will be mirrored on OS9000s.
OmniSwitch 6800/6850/9000 Network Configuration Guide March 2008
Port Mirroring
page 35-17