From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] span/monitor port
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:17:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080307181750.2e7d8c33@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2387247e0803071710n116bc1b6j577104db2b56b5c9@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:10:46 -0500
"Gabriel Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there's an established way to set up one or more
> ports of a bridge as 'span'
> or 'monitor' ports. I.e., once a port is in this state, it discards
> any packets it receives, and gets
> a copy of any other packet the bridge is forwarding out any other
> port. Kind-of like cisco's span
> monitor session.
>
> If not, I'd be interested in having a go at it, but wanted to see if
> there's anything already there
> that I'm missing...
>
It isn't really a bridge function, the way to do this is to use
other facilities like the mirred action (see tc action).
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2008-03-08 1:10 [Bridge] span/monitor port Gabriel Somlo
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