Cisco 7010 Installation Manual page 47

Chapter 3 Deploying Firepower Managed Devices
Using Multiple Sensing Interfaces on a Managed Device
You can use the virtual switch to replace both the tap and the switch in your deployment. Note that if
you replace the tap with a virtual switch, you lose the tap packet delivery guarantee.
You can also create interfaces to capture data from separate networks. The following diagram shows a
single device with a dual sensing interface adapter and two interfaces connected to two networks.
In addition to using one device to monitor both network segments, you can use the virtual switch
capability of the device to replace both switches in your deployment.
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