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njguitarman
Mar 03, 2019Aspirant
Connecting 2 JGS524Ev2 Smart Switches over single cable - with mirror port to work across both units
Hello. I have 2 JGS524Ev2 switches on separate floors, with 1 cable.
I also have this unit: https://www.dualcomm.com/collections/network-tap/products/gigabit-copper-network-tap, which sits bet...
- Mar 03, 2019
Please read this thread. This will not work since the switch does not support RSPAN.
RSPAN allows you to monitor traffic from source ports distributed over multiple switches, which means that you can centralize your network capture devices.
njguitarman
Mar 03, 2019Aspirant
Apologies for any confusion. Let me try again ...
Floor 0, I have a sniffer, and a mirror set up, and it works perfectly.
Floor 1, I have data that I want to get to the sniffer on Floor 0, so that data can be examined by the sniffer on floor 0.
Floor 0 works perfectly. Mirror set up, works fine. Sniffer set up, works fine. Uplink to internet works fine.
Floor 1, same - everything is fine (can access floor 0 without issue). Trying to get data to sniffer on floor 0 is the problem.
Does that help clarify?
Becuase the data is a FULL COPY of all network traffic (between wifi & cable modem), I need to isolate it, so only sniffer can see it, otherwise I get all sorts of CRC errors becuase other devices are trying to respond to it.
So, can I send a copy of all data from floor 1, to floor 0 for sniffer (via mirror port on floor 0) to inspect, without disturbing anything else?
I only have 1 cable between both routers (between floors).
Thank you.
Nodism1125
Mar 03, 2019NETGEAR Expert
Please read this thread. This will not work since the switch does not support RSPAN.
RSPAN allows you to monitor traffic from source ports distributed over multiple switches, which means that you can centralize your network capture devices.
- njguitarmanMar 03, 2019Aspirant
okay. thank you for providing access to that thread. I guess case closed, unfortunately :-(
Thank you!
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