SPANS Vs Taps

Thu Jul 1 23:24:38 UTC 2010

Tap manufactures will be sure to tell you of many issues.

The main concern I would have is that it is possible for a switch to drop
frames of a SPAN.  Your decision might be influenced based on your
application and the impact of such errors (billing, lawful intercept,
forensics).

A tap vendors take: http://www.networkcritical.com/What-are-Network-Taps

On a somewhat related note, I will mention that TNAPI from ntop is quite
handy.   http://www.ntop.org/TNAPI.html

<http://www.networkcritical.com/What-are-Network-Taps>--D

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Bein, Matthew <mbein at iso-ne.com> wrote:

> As I was doing a design today. I found that I had a bunch of 100 MB
> connections that I was going to bring into a aggregation tap. Then I was
> thinking, why don't I use a switch like a Cisco 3560 to gain more
> density. Anyone run into this? Any down falls with using a switch to
> aggregate instead of a true port aggregator??
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> Regards,
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> Matthew
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