Re: Looking for switch recommendations ...

From: Steven Stremciuc (steve_at_freeslacker.net)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:41:39 -0700
To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org

    Wes Peters wrote:

    >>Info about the 3348's problems:
    >>http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pc_managed&message.id=1425
    >>

    >>The guy who posted the message in the Dell forum you linked above sounds
    >>like he has no idea what he's doing. It's not possible to use a switch
    >>port mirroring function to monitor a switch without a strong knowlege of
    >>network configuration. The fact that he's getting only packets bearing the
    >>IP address of the other NIC in his XP box doesn't lend me to believe he has
    >>that knowlege.
    >>
    I was referring to the reply from the Moderator Randy (2nd post) and not
    the original poster you mention. The Moderator mentions "The switch's
    architecture has ports 1-24 and gigabit port 1 on 1 ASIC, while ports
    25-48 and gigabit port 2 are on the other. Because of this
    architecture, you are unable to mirror between ASICs, e.g. port 1 to
    port 48." He also mentions a hardware chipset limitation that only
    affects the Dell 33xx series regarding mirroring of ports that are part
    of a 802.1Q VLAN.
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