Do you remember the article “How to analyze traffic with SPAN feature“? The SPAN port is a feature that mirror traffic (on physical or virtual port) to a specific port. In general, behind this ‘destination’ port can be a traffic analyzer (wireshark, ntop and so on…), an IDS or other appliances. The SPAN feature is a good tool but it has two limitations: The number of SPAN sessions that can be configured is limited. A destination port receives copies of sent and received traffic for all monitored source ports. If a destination port is oversubscribed, it can become congested. This [...]
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