Industrial Ethernet Layer 2 Managed Switch – Web Management Manual
April 29, 2008
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4. Port configuration
Mirror
Mirror Port setting is commonly used to monitor the network traffic, it can help you to collect and
trace abnormal packets of each port without interrupting data transmission.
User can specify a switch port to receive the packet copies
which from another port.
STEP 1
Specify a “Monitor Port” that you want to get the packet
copies.
STEP 2
Specify the ports will be monitored.
There are two type of monitoring options
Egress
Monitor the packets which are sent out the switch port.
Egress & Ingress
Monitor the packets both entering into and being sent
out the switch port.
STEP 3
Click “SUBMIT” button to active mirror setting.
If the setting is succeed. You will see the setting result
shown in the Port Monitoring List below the setting
Table.
NOTE !!
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Lots of mirroring traffic may reduce the performance of
Switch. You can tick the “Clean all Monitoring Setting”
checkbox and press “SUBMIT” button to disable port mirror
setting.
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Mirror function will be disabled when the Trunking function is
enabled.
