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Chapter 29 Configuring SPAN and RSPAN
Understanding SPAN and RSPAN
These sections contain this conceptual information:
• Local SPAN, page 29-2
• Remote SPAN, page 29-3
• SPAN and RSPAN Concepts and Terminology, page 29-4
• SPAN and RSPAN Interaction with Other Features, page 29-9
• SPAN and RSPAN and Switch Stacks, page 29-10
Local SPAN
Local SPAN supports a SPAN session entirely within one switch; all source ports or source VLANs and
destination ports are in the same switch or switch stack. Local SPAN copies traffic from one or more
source ports in any VLAN or from one or more VLANs to a destination port for analysis. For example,
in Figure 29-1, all traffic on port 5 (the source port) is mirrored to port 10 (the destination port). A
network analyzer on port 10receives all network traffic from port 5 without being physically attached to
port 5.
Figure 29-1 Example of Local SPAN Configuration on a Single Switch
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