Switch designed for mirroring tap ports

Thu Mar 1 12:51:13 UTC 2012

"A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

http://www.netoptics.com/products/regeneration-taps

Been reasonably happy with these on 100m and gigabit links in the
past, can't imagine that their 10g products don't work just as well.

-r