Switch designed for mirroring tap ports

Thu Mar 1 10:52:44 UTC 2012

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