The Sniffer doesn't know anything about the 32 Gbps backplane. It just
knows it's connected to a 100 Mbps Ethernet port.
Priscilla
At 12:08 PM 6/18/01, Wilson, Christian wrote:
>I have set span to mirrior VLAN 1 traffic out destination port 5/33. When I
>connect my NAI Sniffer to port 5/33, it returns a utilization rate of
>90-100%. When I look to see how many bytes of traffic are being sent, my
>Sniffer tells me 10 million to 15 million octets. How can this be 90-100%
>utilization on VLAN 1? Doesn't a 6509 have something like a 32Gbs
>backplane? To my calculations, 15 million octets is (15 million octets X
>8bits) = 120mbs, not even close to capacity. Can someone tell me where I am
>going wrong?
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