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Troubleshooting tools, Introduction, Port Mirroring
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Troubleshooting tools Introduction This appendix discusses some tools to help you use the Port Mirroring feature to troubleshoot common network problems on the switch. Port Mirroring The Port Mirroring feature on the switch is very useful for troubleshooting any connection-oriented problem. Any traffic in or out of one or more ports can be mirrored to a single monitoring port to which a network monitor can be attached. Port Mirroring can be used as a troubleshooting tool or to enhance the security of your network. For example, an Intrusion Detection Service (IDS) server can be connected to the monitor port to detect intruders attacking the network. As shown in the following figure, port 20 is monitoring ingress traffic (traffic entering the switch) on port 23 and egress traffic (traffic leaving the switch) on port 1. You can attach a device to port 20 to monitor the traffic on ports 23 and 1. Figure 28 Port Mirroring This figure shows two mirrored ports monitored by a single port. Similarly, you can have one mirrored port to one monitored port, or many mirrored ports to one monitored port. The switch does not support a single port being monitored by multiple ports because it supports only one monitored port configured at a time. Ingress traffic is duplicated and sent to the mirrored port before processing, and egress traffic is duplicated and sent to the mirrored port after processing. Troubleshooting tools 159