Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide v7.0.0 (53-1002150-02, June 2011)

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Port mirroring
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• If you have NPIV or 10-bit address mode enabled on a Brocade 300, 5300, 5410, 5450, 5460,
5470, 5480, 7800, and the M5424 platforms, all devices from the same NPIV port or 10-bit
addressing mode hit the same mirror connection, regardless of different AL_PAs, since the
validation is done only for the first 16-bits of the SID/DID.
• Port mirroring is not supported for the shared area ports of 48-port blades in the default
switch. However, when the ports are assigned to a 10-bit address logical switch, port mirroring
is supported.
On the Brocade FR4-18i blade, if you define multiple mirror connections for the same F_PORT (SID
or DID), all the connections must share the same mirror port.
Supported platforms
Port mirroring is supported only in FC ports. In general, a platform or blade supporting port
mirroring supports both the mirror ports and the mirror connections. Exemptions are listed in
Table 8.
TABLE 8 Port mirroring platform supportability
Brocade Model Fabric OS v6.1.1_enc Fabric OS v6.34.0 Fabric OS v6.4.0
Brocade
Encryptiop Switch
FS8-18
DCX-4S
Brocade 8000 Port mirroring is not
supported on either FC
or FCoE ports.
FCOE10-24 Port mirroring is
not supported on
Europa.
Port mirroring is
supported on the
Brocade FCOE
10-24.
FX8-24 Port mirroring is
supported only on
the FC ports. It is
not supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Port mirroring is
supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Brocade 7800 Port mirroring is
supported only on
the FC ports. It is
not supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels
Port mirroring is
supported over
GbE ports/FCIP VE
tunnels