Switch designed for mirroring tap ports

Thu Mar 1 22:01:08 UTC 2012

NetOptics has some very nice gear ; take a look at the Director series with 
aggregation, load balancing and filtering based on physical port, ip, 
protocol, etc.

Dennis

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From: "Chris Mills" <securinate at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 7:03 AM
To: "Terry Baranski" <terry.baranski.list at gmail.com>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: RE: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports

> Echoing what Terry said... we use gigamon devices for this too.
>
> -Chris
> On Mar 1, 2012 5:53 AM, "Terry Baranski" <terry.baranski.list at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Mar 1, 2012, at 02:13 AM, apishdadi at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > We are looking for a switch or a device that we can use for mirroring
>> > tap ports. For example , take a mirror port off of a core router say
>> > a 6509, connect it to a port on said device, say port 1. I would like
>> > then to be able to mirror port 1 on said device to multiple ports,
>> > like port 2 , 3, 4. We have the need to analyze traffic from one port
>> > on multiple devices. Seems most switches are limited to mirroring to a
>> > max of 1 or 2 ports.
>>
>> We like Gigamon for this purpose.
>>
>> -Terry
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