hmmm.
I fully understand the Lane ATM Vlan Elan relationships.
What is happening is that I only see the broadcast on the specific Vlan. I
do not see the direct Vlan to Vlan traffic nor the Vlan to Vlan Gateway
address... I assumed that the trunked ports were not passing the traffic
out the lane blades because the Cam Dynamics recognized that the destination
MAC was not down that port (trunked port... therefore it dropped the frame
and my spanned port on the other side of the cloud never got the frame...
and yes everything else is in place... a lec is configured on my Spanned
port switch's lane blade...
I clearly do not know what I am missing... I really feel I have covered
everything
-----Original Message-----
From: Nigel Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 1:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Priscilla
Oppenheimer; Lou Nelson
Cc: Bryant Andrews
Subject: Re: can SPAN port transmit?
Lou,
The answer is yes. I must be more specific in stating that since
LANE extends layer 2 characteristics through the ATM cloud. ELANs are
simply a way of extending a VLAN(lan segment/broadcast domain).
So plugging a sniffer onto a span port that is configured to a specific VLAN
which is mapped to a possible specific ELAN you should be able to capture
all/any traffic within the E-LAN(Extended-VLAN).
What you're seeing would tend to suggest a incorrectly SPAN port.
HTH
Nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: Lou Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 12:02 AM
Subject: RE: can SPAN port transmit?
> The answer is no. I have tried before and I now think of spanning a port
as
> a 6th state of the STP... Listen only to the other port.... .. to TX and
> receive to the sniffer you will need another NIC and Port
>
> Now a question back to the group... Across an ATM cloud... using LANE...
and
> ELANS.... Is there a way to see ALL Vlan traffic (Inc. from switches
across
> the cloud) when you span a VLAN on a switch... Thus far I can ONLY see the
> broadcast traffic!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Priscilla Oppenheimer
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 4:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: can SPAN port transmit?
>
>
> The reason I ask is that my client is developing a network management box
> that will connect to a SPAN port and collect traffic as well as
> occasionally send SNMP queries and other UDP packets.
>
> He realizes that if the user were collecting data from many ports there
> would be performance issues. However, he wants to know, in the absence of
> performance problems, will his device be able to send some queries? Is
> sending disabled on the SPAN port? The other answers (from people who have
> tried it) make me think the answer is no, sending is not disabled.
>
> Priscilla
>
> At 04:46 PM 12/29/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> >Cisco employees have confirmed for me that devices connected to span
ports
> >are unable to act as normal hosts by design.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@groupstudy.com on 12/29/2000
> >03:27:52 PM
> >
> >Please respond to Priscilla Oppenheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >cc: (bcc: Kevin Cullimore)
> >Subject: can SPAN port transmit?
> >
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >If I connect a Sniffer-like device to the SPAN port of a switch, will the
> >Sniffer-like device be able to transmit data?
> >
> >My guess is no. From my reading on Cisco's SwitchProbe external hardware
> >probes, it appears that the SwitchProbe needs an additional port to send
> >data to a network management system. One port connects to a SPAN port on
> >the switch and the other port connects to a normal port and is configured
> >in "management mode."
> >
> >But, does anyone have experience with trying to send from a device
> >connected to a SPAN port?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Priscilla
>
>
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