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Figure 15-2 shows ports 0/25 and 0/26 that belong to port pipe 1 with a maximum of four destination ports.
Figure 15-2. Number of Monitoring Ports
A source port may only be monitored by one destination port (Message 3), but a destination port may
monitor more than one source port.
Message 3 One Destination Port in a Monitoring Session Error Message
% Error: Exceeding max MG ports for this MD port pipe.
Message 4 One Destination Port per Source Port Error Message
% Error: MD port is already being monitored.
FTOS Behavior: All monitored frames are tagged if the configured monitoring direction is transmit
(TX), regardless of whether the monitored port is a Layer 2 or Layer 3 port.
- If the source port is a Layer 2 port, the frames are tagged with the VLAN ID of the VLAN to which the
port belongs.
- If the source port is a Layer 3 port, the frames are tagged with VLAN ID 4095.
- If the source port is in a Layer 3 VLAN, the frames are tagged with the corresponding Layer 3 VLAN
ID.
For example, in the configuration source tengig 1/1 destination tengig 1/41 direction tx, if the source
port 1/1 is an untagged member of any VLAN, all monitored frames that the destination port 1/41
receives are tagged with the VLAN ID of the source port.
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#do show mon session
SessionID Source Destination Direction Mode Type
--------- ------ ----------- --------- ---- ----
0 TenGig 0/13 TenGig 0/33 rx interface Port-based
10 TenGig 0/14 TenGig 0/34 rx interface Port-based
20 TenGig 0/15 TenGig 0/35 rx interface Port-based
30 TenGig 0/16 TenGig 0/37 rx interface Port-based
100 TenGig 0/25 TenGig 0/38 tx interface Port-based
110 TenGig 0/26 TenGig 0/39 tx interface Port-based
300 TenGig 0/17 TenGig 0/33 tx interface Port-based
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#