From: Miguel Trejo (mike.trejo@gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2008 - 09:17:52 ART
Just to backup V Shekhar comment the fact is that as he stated the switch is
not able to replicate the packets from the source port by SW only, in fact
he needs a port ASIC to do the job, the reflector port command specifies
from which the switch will borrow the ASIC from.
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Khawar Butt <khawarb@khawarb.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> You cannot use a Loopback as a reflector port. It has to be a physical
> port.
> Use any unused port as a reflector port as it goes down for Monitoring.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Khawar Butt
> CCIE#12353 (R/S , Security , SP , Voice)
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> ccie
> ccie
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:49 AM
> To: V.Shekhar@GlobalAssurance.Net
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: reflector port
>
> Thanks for your replay and answer Mr. Shekhar
>
> Is it possible to use as a loopback interface as a reflector port.
> suppose in lab I will face any remote spam question like this from one
> switch
> to another and both are 3550.
> what i do?
> May I create and use a loopback interface as a reflector port?
> or
> May I use a unused port as a reflector port?
>
> please correct me?
>
> Regards> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:23:41 +0530> From:
> V.Shekhar@GlobalAssurance.Net> To: 2008ccie@live.com> CC:
> ccielab@groupstudy.com> Subject: Re: reflector port> > You can treat
> Reflector
> Port as a limitation in some platforms (like > 3550), the switch actually
> needs a physical port to bounce the traffic > off to the remote VLAN.> If
> you
> have the switch in front of you u will see that the reflector > port light
> glowing without any host connected to it.> This is not required in the
> newer
> platforms like 3560/3750.> HTH,> > -V Shekhar> CCIE(sec)#17589/CISSP/RHCE.>
> >
> > 2008ccie@live.com wrote:> > Hi experts> >> > would you please explain me
> about reflector port?> >> > monitor session 1 destination remote vlan 901
> reflector-port > > fastEthernet0/1> >> > Regards> >> >> >
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