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Software configuration
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SFPs separately from others, then you can use virtual adapters to assign specific
physical ports to probe instances.
Prerequisite(s):
Your hardware appliance must have one of the following:
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Gen2 capture card
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Gen3 capture card
For example, suppose you are deploying an 8-port Gen3 capture card as follows:
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Ports 1-4 are monitoring a collection of trunked links
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The remaining ports are each connected to the SPAN (or mirror) port on a
switch
In this scenario, it makes sense for Observer to view ports 1-4, for example, as a
single stream of network traffic and to separate each of the four remaining ports
into separate data streams. Virtual adapters are a convenient way to accomplish
this separation or aggregation in real time, rather than depending on filters to
sort through the traffic post-capture.
These are the general steps for assigning physical ports to a probe instance:
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Create a virtual adapter (or have one already).
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Assign physical ports to this virtual adapter.
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Set a probe instance to use this virtual adapter as its NIC.
Tip! As a general reminder, you risk severe performance loss when using
more than one active instance. These instructions do not create multiple
active instances.
To assign physical ports to a specific probe instance:
1. In Observer, right-click the Gen3 capture card-equipped probe instance from
the probe list, and click Probe or Device Properties .
A Gen3 capture card-equipped probe instance shows (Gigabit) or similar
after the name.
2. Click the Virtual Adapters tab.