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MS510TXPP port mirroring question
Hello and good morning/afternoon/evening! I have a MS510TXPP in which I'm trying to port mirror the max amount of eight ports (1-8) through Port 9 over to a server. Ports 1 and 2 are part of a l...
Can't see anything wrong - permitting the Onion adapter and Ethernet link has more bandwidth available than the two aggregated router ports.
- So, it is all working as it should.
Port 9 is running at 10Gbps and my LAG doesn't exceed 2Gbps, so my port mirroring of 1-8 ports is passing all traffic without dropped packets.
So if anyone else is looking to port mirror over to an ESXi server, Netgear makes it pretty simple. Each port, even if their in a LAG group, actually get mirrored individually. Now you may ask, could this mess up because of the LAG assignment, apparently not.
As for the issue I found, it related to how you pass thru the mirroring traffic to a VM within ESXi.
Make a dedicated v-switch and port group for the vmnic assigned to the physical NIC in which is receiving the port mirroring data. Set both the v-switch and port group to have promiscuous mode on. Then on the port group assign a VLAN of 4095.
After this, assign security onions monitor NIC to this newly created port group.
You should be good.
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