Networking
SPAN Port / Mirroring Monitoring
By unmanarc on 26 May 2008
Some network administrators dont know how to handle and correctly install network monitoring applications, IDS and other products who requires network traffic inspection, there is no knowledgment about how span port where designed and it limitations for full-duplex networks.
When the network are in full-duplex mode, the span port have a natural loss of packets that not vary across the hardware.