Re: SPANS Vs Taps

2010-07-01 Thread Ricky Beam
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:24:38 -0400, Darren Bolding wrote: Tap manufactures will be sure to tell you of many issues. Well, there are issues on both sides... A true tap is an electronic mirror. It doesn't much care what the signal is; whatever it senses, it replicates. As the OP is talking

Re: SPANS Vs Taps

2010-07-01 Thread Darren Bolding
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 ta

Re: SPANS Vs Taps

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Gladney
Gary Gary Gladney Space Telescope Science Institute Email: glad...@stsci.edu Voice: 410.338.4912 Public Key: ldap://certserver.pgp.com Original message >Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:48:14 -0400 >From: "Bein, Matthew" >Subject: SPANS Vs Taps >To: > >As I

SPANS Vs Taps

2010-07-01 Thread Bein, Matthew
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