Defining Port Mirroring Sessions - Dell PowerConnect 5424 User Manual

The following is an example of the CLI commands:
console> enable
console# configure
Console(config)# port storm-control include-multicast
Console(config)# port storm-control broadcast rate 8000
Console(config)# interface ethernet g1
Console(config-if)# port storm-control broadcast enable
Console(config-if)# end
Console# show ports storm-control
Port
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g1
g2
g4

Defining Port Mirroring Sessions

Port mirroring monitors and mirrors network traffic by forwarding copies of incoming and outgoing
packets from one port to a monitoring port.
Port mirroring is configured by selecting a specific port to copy all packets, and different ports from
which the packets copied. Before configuring Port Mirroring, note the following:
When a port is set to be a target port for a port-mirroring session, all normal operations on it are
suspended. This includes Spanning Tree and LACP .
Before configuring Port Mirroring, note the following:
• Monitored port cannot operate faster than the monitoring port.
• All the RX/TX packets should be monitored to the same port.
The following restrictions apply to ports configured to be destination ports:
• Ports cannot be configured as a source port.
• Ports cannot be a LAG member.
• IP interfaces are not configured on the port.
• GVRP is not enabled on the port.
• The port is not a VLAN member.
• Only one destination port can be defined.
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Configuring Device Information
Broadcast Storm control [Packets/sec]
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8000
Disabled
Disabled