Tap Between Internet Router And Firewall; How To Set Up A Tap - Network Critical SmartNA-X User Manual

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Figure 5: TAP configuration before a load balancer

TAP between internet router and firewall

You can place a TAP between an internet router and a firewall to monitor the data exchanged between the public Internet
and your local Intranet.
Figure 6: TAP configuration between router and firewall

How to set up a TAP

You set up a TAP by connecting the SmartNA-X to your LAN and directing the received traffic to your network
monitoring tools for capture or analysis. Once the TAP has been installed its presence is transparent to traffic flowing
along that segment.
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