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Figure 21-2. Number of Monitoring Ports

In Figure 21-3, 0/25 and 0/26 belong to Port-pipe 1. This port-pipe again has the same restriction of only

four destination ports, new or used.

Figure 21-3. Number of Monitoring Ports

A source port may only be monitored by one destination port (Message 3), but a destination port may

monitor more than one source port.

Message 3 One Destination Port in a Monitoring Session Error Message

% Error: Exceeding max MG ports for this MD port pipe.

Message 4 One Destination Port per Source Port Error Message

% Error: MD port is already being monitored.

FTOS(conf)#mon ses 300

FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#source tengig 0/17 destination tengig 0/4 direction tx

% Error: Exceeding max MG ports for this MD port pipe.

FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#

FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#source tengig 0/17 destination tengig 0/1 direction tx

FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#do show mon session

SessionID Source Destination Direction Mode Type

--------- ------ ----------- --------- ---- ----

0 TenGig 0/13 TenGig 0/1 rx interface Port-based

10 TenGig 0/14 TenGig 0/2 rx interface Port-based

20 TenGig 0/15 TenGig 0/3 rx interface Port-based

30 TenGig 0/16 TenGig 0/37 rx interface Port-based

300 TenGig 0/17 TenGig 0/1 tx interface Port-based