> This will only monitor a single port though, correct? I think the question
> was to monitor any traffic passed through the switch, and to my knowledge
> you can't unless you have something that can monitor the switch fabric
> directly (I think there may be a handful of vendors who make RMON probes
> that can do this, but last I checked they were incredibly expensive - around
> a 100G per probe). Short of that, the closest one could do is monitor the
> "uplink" port of the switch. That will show you anything coming in and out
> of the switch, but of course wouldn't show you any port to port traffic
> "internal" to the switch.
You can monitor multiple ports. However, you may run into bandwidth
issues -- though, that can happen with even one port (full duplex
100MBps).
-mike
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