Re: SPAN - Using a router as a sniffer

From: Jian Gu (guxiaojian@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 15:21:34 ART


I don't think router interface will negotiate with monitor port at L2 (no
ARP), so packets received will also be dropped.

On 6/1/06, Schulz, Dave <DSchulz@dpsciences.com> wrote:
>
> Group -
>
> I have been going over some of the switching subjects, specifically
> SPAN and am trying to use a router as a monitor/sniffer. I thought that
> there was a way to do this, but I can't seem to get it to work. I have
> set up IP on the fastethernet interface of a 3640, and set the interface
> to "no ip route-cache" to see the debug packets. Then, did a "debup ip
> packet detail".
>
> When I set up the SPAN, I can do the show command on the switch and
> notice that it is in monitoring, and packets are sent out of the
> interface.....however, the packets are not being received at the router
> interface that is doing the monitoring (or suppose to be doing the
> monitoring). Any thoughts? Maybe this just can't be done, but I
> thought someone did this before.
>
>
> Dave Schulz
>
> Email: dschulz@dpsciences.com <mailto:dschulz@dpsciences.com >
>
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