Port Mirroring - 3Com 2426-PWR Installation And User Manual

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entering the Switch. You can display the address table
to find specific MAC addresses, or view MAC addresses
associated with a specific port or VLAN.
The Address Table menu includes two tabs:
Summary
■
Port Summary
■
Summary
Use the Summary tab to display the address table
information for all ports.
Clicking on any entry in the address table will copy the
entire contents of the address table into the clipboard
for use with other applications.
Figure 65 Address Table Summary Screen
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WITCH ROM HE EB NTERFACE
Port Summary
Use the Port Summary tab to display the address table
information for selected ports.
Figure 66 Address Table Port Summary Screen

Port Mirroring

The Switch allows you to monitor traffic going in and
out of a particular port. For traffic monitoring to work,
you need to attach a network analyzer to one port and
use it to monitor the traffic of other ports on the
Switch.
To set up traffic monitoring, you need to set a monitor
port (the port that is connected to the analyzer), and a
mirror port (the port that is to be monitored). Once the
pair is defined, and you enable traffic monitoring, the