Allied Telesis AT-9000/52 User Manual

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Chapter 6: Setting Port Mirroring
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Overview
To use the port mirroring feature, you must designate one or more source 
ports and one destination port. The source ports are the ports whose 
packets are mirrored and monitored. The destination port is the port where 
the packets from the source ports are copied and where the network 
analyzer is connected. There can be only one destination port on the 
switch.
Here are guidelines for setting the port mirroring feature:
The switch supports only one port mirror.
The port mirror can have one destination port.
The port mirror can have more than one source port. This allows you 
to monitor the traffic on multiple ports at the same time. For example, 
you might monitor the traffic on all the ports of a particular VLAN.
You can mirror the ingress traffic, the egress traffic, or both on the 
source ports.
The destination port must not be a member of a static port trunk or an 
LACP trunk.