
Operation Manual – Mirroring
H3C S5600 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 Mirroring Configuration
1-3
Table 1-1
describes how the ports on various switches are involved in the mirroring
operation.
Table 1-1
Ports involved in the mirroring operation
Switch
Ports involved
Function
Source port
Port monitored. It copies packets to the
reflector port through local port mirroring.
There can be more than one source port.
Reflector port
Receives packets from the source port and
broadcasts the packets in the remote-probe
VLAN.
Source switch
Trunk port
Sends mirrored packets to the intermediate
switch or the destination switch.
Intermediate
switch
Trunk port
Sends mirrored packets to the destination
switch.
Two trunk ports are necessary for the
intermediate switch to connect the devices at
the source switch side and the destination
switch side.
Trunk port
Receives remote mirrored packets.
Destination
switch
Destination port
Receives packets forwarded from the trunk
port and transmits the packets to the data
detection device.
Caution:
z
Do not configure a default VLAN, a management VLAN, or a dynamic VLAN as the
remote-probe VLAN.
z
Configure all ports connecting the devices in the remote-probe VLAN as trunk ports,
and ensure the Layer 2 connectivity from the source switch to the destination switch
over the remote-probe VLAN.
z
Do not configure a Layer 3 interface for the remote-probe VLAN, run other protocol
packets, or carry other service packets on the remote-prove VLAN and do not use
the remote-prove VLAN as the voice VLAN and protocol VLAN; otherwise, remote
port mirroring may be affected.
1.1.3 Traffic Mirroring
Traffic mirroring uses ACL to monitor traffic that matches certain criteria on a specific
port. Unlike port mirroring where all inbound/outbound traffic passing through a port is