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OverSeer
Oct 29, 2018Aspirant
GS116Ev2 Port Mirroring and loss of mirrored traffic
I've recently set up port mirroring on my GS116Ev2 (firmware v. 2.6.0.24) and it works... at least for a little while. For some reason, and I don't have the exact amount of time involved, the mirrori...
- Nov 02, 2018
Hi OverSeer,
Please try another port as Destination Port and see if you encounter the same issue. Also, check if CRC error counts increasing under Port Statistics.
JohnC_V
Oct 31, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi OverSeer,
Welcome to our community! :)
May I know if you are trying to get a packet capture on a mirrored port? How long are you trying to run the packet capture? It may only take about 30 seconds to get a packet capture.
Regards,
- OverSeerNov 01, 2018Aspirant
Not running a packet capture but a security monitoring device is attached to that port to get the feed of traffic for analysis.
- Nodism1125Nov 02, 2018NETGEAR Expert
Hi OverSeer,
Please try another port as Destination Port and see if you encounter the same issue. Also, check if CRC error counts increasing under Port Statistics.
- OverSeerApr 17, 2019Aspirant
Sorry for the long delay. I was able to get the port mirroring to work by hard reseting the switch *and* trying a different port. Something's just "up" with port 9 on my switch when it comes to mirroring for some unknown reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
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