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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:10:46 -0500
From: "Gabriel Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Bridge] span/monitor port
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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...

Thanks,
Gabriel