Brocade Communications Systems Brocate Ethernet Access Switch 6910 - Manual (Page 729)

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Port Configuration
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Interface
To display port connection parameters:
1. Click Interface, Port, General.
2. Select Show Information from the Action List.
FIGURE 32 Displaying Port Information
Configuring Local Port Mirroring
Use the Interface > Port > Mirror page to mirror traffic from any source port to a target port for
real-time analysis. You can then attach a logic analyzer or RMON probe to the target port and study
the traffic crossing the source port in a completely unobtrusive manner.
FIGURE 33 Configuring Local Port Mirroring
CLI References
• “Local Port Mirroring Commands” on page 301
Command Usage
• Traffic can be mirrored from one or more source ports to a destination port on the same switch
(local port mirroring as described in this section), or from one or more source ports on remote
switches to a destination port on this switch (remote port mirroring as described in
“Configuring Remote Port Mirroring” on page 681 ).
• Monitor port speed should match or exceed source port speed, otherwise traffic may be
dropped from the monitor port.
• Note that Spanning Tree BPDU packets are not mirrored to the target port.
• When mirroring VLAN traffic (see “Configuring VLAN Mirroring” on page 746 ) or packets based
on a source MAC address (see “Configuring MAC Address Mirroring” on page 756 ), the target
port cannot be set to the same target ports as that used for port mirroring by this command.
Single target port Source port(s)