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5.4 Mirror
Portmirroringisusedtotransferthepacketsofoneormoremonitoredportsto
anotherport,allowingasecuritydepartmentoradministratortomonitorInternet
access,trafficflowsandpackets.
Thebandwidthofthemonitoringportcannotbelowerthanthatofthe
monitoredport.
Ifthemonitoringportisthemonitoredport,thesystemautomaticallyignoresthis
monitoredportanddoesnotduplicatethetraffic.
Thisfunctionsupportscross-VLANmonitoring.Monitoringisallowedevenifthe
monitoredportandthemonitoringportbelongtodifferentVLANgroups.
Mirror:
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MirrorPort:Selectsaporttoserveasthemonitoringport
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MirroredPort:Selectsoneormoreportstobemonitored
5.5 VLAN
AVLANorVirtualLocalAreaNetworkscanbeusedtoestablishsecureautono-
mousbroadcast/multicastdomains.AVLANisusedtodivideanetworkinto
multiplenetworksegmentsand/ortoshrinkbroadcastdomainsforapplicationor
departmentaloptimization.WithinaVLAN,allEthernetpackets,suchasunicast,
multicast,broadcastandunknownunicastpacketswillbetransferredonlytoother
deviceswithintheVLANgroup.AVLANcanbeusedtochangethetopological
structureofthenetworkwithoutanymovementofanetworkdeviceorchangeof
networkconnections.YoucanmodifytheVLANsettingsofadeviceforexample,
to“move”adevicefromtheVLANofonegrouptothatofanothergroup.This
helpscreatesecure,optimizeddepartmental(orfunction/applicationspecific)
networksthatcannotbeaccessedbyotherdepartments,applicationsorfunctions.
Thisalsomeansthenetworknodesordevicescanbemoved,changedoradded
withouthavingtophysicallymovethedevice.