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Port Mirroring
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D-Link DES-3326S Layer 3 Switch Chapter 7 Port Mirroring The Switch allows you to copy frames transmitted and received on a port and redirect the copies to another port. You can attach a monitoring device to the mirrored port, such as a sniffer or an RMON probe, to view details about the packets passing through the first port. To configure a port for port mirroring: Click the Mirroring Configurations link in the Advanced Settings folder to see the menu below. Figure 7- 1. Target Port Selection The target port is the port where information will be duplicated and sent for capture and network analysis. This is the port where a network analyzer would be attached to capture packets duplicated from the source port. Up to 25 entries can be made to the port mirroring table, but it should be noted that a faster port (a 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet port, for example) should not be mirrored to a slower port (one of the 24 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet port), because many packets will be dropped. The following fields can be set: Parameter Description Source Port Direction Allows the entry of the port number of the port to be mirrored. This port is the source of the packets to be duplicated and forwarded to the Target port. This field can be toggled between Either, Ingress and Egress. Ingress mirrors only received packets, while Egress mirrors only transmitted packets. NOTE: You cannot mirror a fast port onto a slower port. For example, if you try to mirror the traffic from a 100 Mbps port onto a 10 Mbps port, this can cause throughput problems. The port you are copying frames from should always support an equal or lower speed than the port to which you are sending the copies. Also note, the target port for the mirroring cannot be a member of a trunk group. 55