Re: Capturing packets from hight speed switch ports

[eunjin jin <eunjj79 () gmail com>]

2011/11/24 Peter Phaal <peter.phaal () gmail com>

> Hi All,
>
> I was following the discussion on sniffing 1GigE ports and thought
> there might be some interest in seeing how Wireshark can be used with
> sFlow monitoring, implemented in Ethernet switch hardware, to capture
> packets from high speed links:
>
> http://blog.sflow.com/2011/11/wireshark.html
>
> sFlow is a packet sampling technology, so there are limitations to the
> type of protocol following you can do in Wireshark. However, there are
> offsetting benefits. If you don't know which links to tap to solve a
> problem you can use sFlow to cast a wide net and capture packets from
> hundreds, or even thousands of links simultaneously. Using sFlow also
> lets you easily monitor 1, 10, 40 and 100GigE ports without
> overwhelming Wireshark.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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thanks Great,, easily monitor 1, 10, 40 and 100GigE ports

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