Tap manufactures will be sure to tell you of many issues. The main concern I would have is that it is possible for a switch to drop frames of a SPAN. Your decision might be influenced based on your application and the impact of such errors (billing, lawful intercept, forensics).
A tap vendors take: http://www.networkcritical.com/What-are-Network-Taps On a somewhat related note, I will mention that TNAPI from ntop is quite handy. http://www.ntop.org/TNAPI.html <http://www.networkcritical.com/What-are-Network-Taps>--D On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Bein, Matthew <mb...@iso-ne.com> wrote: > As I was doing a design today. I found that I had a bunch of 100 MB > connections that I was going to bring into a aggregation tap. Then I was > thinking, why don't I use a switch like a Cisco 3560 to gain more > density. Anyone run into this? Any down falls with using a switch to > aggregate instead of a true port aggregator?? > > > > Regards, > > > > Matthew > > -- -- Darren Bolding -- -- dar...@bolding.org --
