Port mirroring is a feature that duplicates network traffic from a source host’s port to a secondary host for analysis. It can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting, and analyzing network ...

As more and more of our network infrastructure gets older and/or fails, we are going to a switched configuration instead of the hubs that were initially used to set up the network. We have used mostly ...

Hi, I usually like to Google myself to solutions (lmgtfy!) but I've made no progress on this nut. Networking is confusing... Anyways, I'm actually really surprised there isn't a marketed solution for ...

In this series of articles, I am looking at how to monitor my home/home lab LAN. In my first article, I probed my network to see what devices were on it and where they were located. In my next article ...

A TechRepublic reader recently e-mailed me to ask about limiting the bandwidth on a Cisco Catalyst switch port. In fact, there are a number of uses for this configuration. Let's take a closer look. A ...

Remove the second port from the VLAN (probbly put it in Access mode) and then have it be the mirror destination. I don't think mirroring means what you think it means. Mirror will span both TX and RX ...