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Select the Destination Interface.
NOTE:
When you add a new VLAN mirror, the mirrored traffic is only Rx traffic
(unlike port mirror in which you can also mirror Tx traffic).
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To add an interface to be mirrored, click
Edit, Add
, and enter the fields:
–
Interface
— The source port number from which port traffic is copied.
–
Type
— Type of traffic (
Tx
or
Rx
or
Tx and Rx
) to be copied.
Address Tables
This section describes how MAC addresses are handled on the device.
It contains the following topics:
• Overview
• Static Address Table
• Dynamic Address Table
Overview
MAC addresses, associated with ports, are stored in the Static Address or the
Dynamic Address tables. Packets, addressed to a destination stored in one of
these tables, are forwarded to the associated port.
MAC addresses are dynamically learned when packets arrive at the device.
Addresses are associated with ports by learning the source address of the
frame. Frames, addressed to a destination MAC address that is not found in
the Static and Dynamic Address tables, are flooded to all ports of the relevant
VLAN. In order to prevent the bridging table from overflowing, dynamic
MAC addresses, from which no traffic is seen for a certain period, are erased.
The size of the MAC table is 16K for all SKUs except for the X4012 on which
the size of the MAC table is 32K.
Static addresses are manually entered into the table.
Static Address Table
Static addresses are manually assigned to a specific interface and VLAN on
the switch. If a static address is seen on another interface, its interface in the
static address table remains and will not be overridden by the new interface.
To define a static address:
