Re: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports

["dennis" <dennis () justipit com>]

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 () gmail com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 7:03 AM
To: "Terry Baranski" <terry.baranski.list () gmail com>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () 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 () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 1, 2012, at 02:13 AM, apishdadi () 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