From: Sohail Bhamani (sohail@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2006 - 09:27:43 ART
You might want to try this out as I am quite sure the reflector port needs
to be a physical port to take advantage of the switching asics powering that
port. I do not believe that any loopback interface will have an asic.
On 9/21/06, srdja blagojevic <srdja1@pexim.co.yu> wrote:
>
> AFAIK you can use Loopback interface as reflector port.
>
> hth,
> srdja
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Sean
> C.
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 05:33
> To: xprtofnet; ccielab
> Subject: Re: RSPAN
>
> I don't know if you'll ever see anything explicitly stating to use a
> "unused
> port" as the reflector port, but the doc does supply this:
> .When you configure a switch port as a reflector port, it is no longer a
> normal switch port; only looped-back traffic passes through the reflector
> port.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/c3550/12225see/scg/swspa
> n.htm#wp1401252
>
> So, from this, you can infer that your reflector port can't be a port that
> is being used for 'normal port duties' (whatever that may constitute).
> IOW - don't assign a reflector-port to a port that is being used for
> something else.
>
> Consider the ambiguity as job-security when you become a CCIE!
>
> HTH,
> Sean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "xprtofnet" <xprtofnet@yahoo.com>
> To: "ccielab" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: RSPAN
>
>
> Thank you all for the responses.
>
> Now is this some thing obvious in the docs ? I do see
> that it tell not to use trunk port but it never says
> to use a "un-used port" for reflector port in the doc,
> unless i have overlooked it ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> --- xprtofnet <xprtofnet@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > source---S1===trunk===S2---Sniffer
> >
> > if i configure the RSPAN and assign the reflector
> > port
> > to be the trunk port as above from source switch the
> > trunk goes down. How do we fix this ? F0/13 is a
> > trunk
> > port.
> >
> > my config is as follows:
> > S1
> > !
> > monitor session 1 source interface Fa0/1
> > monitor session 1 destination remote vlan 901
> > reflector-port Fa0/13
> > !
> > S2
> > !
> > monitor session 1 destination interface Fa0/1
> > monitor session 1 source remote vlan 901
> > !
> >
> >
> > Any inputs are welcome,
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
> > protection around
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________________________________
> > Subscription information may be found at:
> > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
> >
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sun Oct 01 2006 - 16:55:41 ART