Table of Contents
Advertisement
4.12.5 Port Mirroring
Port mirroring monitors and mirrors network traffic by forwarding copies of incoming and outgoing
packets from one port to a monitoring port. Port mirroring can be used as diagnostic tool and/or a
d
ebugging fe
ature. Por
t
mirroring also enables switch performance monitoring (refer to figure 4-72).
Network administrators configure port mirroring by selecting a specific port to copy all packets, and
d
ifferent ports from
whi
ch the packets are copied.
T
he page conta
ins the
following fields
• Source Por
t
• Type
Figure 4-72 Port Mirroring screen
:
Defines the port to which traffic is mirrored.
Indicates the port mode configuration for port mirroring. The possible
field values are:
• RxOnly, defines the port mirroring on receiving ports. This
default value.
• TxOnly, defin
es the port mirroring on transmitting ports.
• Both, which defines the port mirroring on both receiving and
transmitting ports. Target Port, defines the port from which traffic
is mirrore
d.
is the
Advertisement
Table of Contents
