RE: SPAN question on 6509 [7:8959]

2001-06-18 Thread Brady Justin
He is right about the sniffer being connected a 100Mb port. And you are also right about it only being around 120Mbps. What you also have to remember is that if these are broadcast packets (which if they are, you have a little bit of a problem), they are being sent out every port (100Mb X 48 X n

RE: SPAN question on 6509 [7:8959]

2001-06-18 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
gt; > To: Wilson, Christian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: SPAN question on 6509 [7:8959] > > > > The Sniffer doesn't know anything about the 32 Gbps backplane. It just > > knows it's connected to a 100 Mbps Ethernet port. > > > > Priscilla > >

Re: SPAN question on 6509 [7:8959]

2001-06-18 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
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

SPAN question on 6509 [7:8959]

2001-06-18 Thread Wilson, Christian
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% ut