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RE: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS
From: "franks" <franks () nfr com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 08:47:27 -0800
Don I think that the tap uses two ports one for RX and another for TX. So it's RX for receive pair and TX for send pair. Router ------ Tap ------ firewall | | ------ RX TX SO if you want to have the signal go to let's say a nic, you will need to combine the signal. -----Original Message----- From: firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin () nfr com] On Behalf Of Don Ng Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:19 PM To: firewall-wizards () nfr net Subject: [fw-wiz] Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Hello all, just need some assistance on the issue of Shomiti taps. I have spoken to the vendors but they had to check ... I am looking at their Century taps that comes with 4 ports. Two ports are used to place the device inline with the segment to be monitored. Original Router-----Firewall After Router----<P 1> Century TAP <Port 2>---Firewall | | <P 3> <P 4> The vendors advised me that for the other 2 ports, I was told that each port mirrored out one direction flow. Eg. Router --->Firewall for Port 3 and Firewall---> Router for Port 4. From the looks of things I would have to connect both Port 3 and 4 to another Hub and plugging an network IDS into that hub. Router----<P 1> Century TAP <Port 2>---Firewall | | <P 3> <P 4> | | HUB |----NID-200 Is this the optimal way to put an inline tap. Cisco port mirroring seems to work fine mirroing multiple ports to a single port connected to an IDS. Glad for any help and comments. ===== A Nobel Peace Prize for Jim Henson, He bought laughter to a lot of people. PS: I work in www.Quantiqint.com so comments regarding CyberGuard FW, NFR Security, Network-1, might be judged to be biased. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Don Ng (Jan 04)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Paul Cardon (Jan 04)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Ryan Russell (Jan 04)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Paul Cardon (Jan 06)
- RE: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS franks (Jan 04)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Ryan Russell (Jan 04)
- RE: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS franks (Jan 04)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Roelof JT Jonkman (Jan 04)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS John Adams (Jan 05)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Don Ng (Jan 06)
- Re: Shomiti Taps, Cisco Port Mirroring and IDS Paul Cardon (Jan 04)