Service Manual

You can activate ow-based monitoring for a monitoring session by entering the ow-based enable
command in the Monitor Session mode. When you enable this capability, trac with particular ows that are
traversing through the ingress and egress interfaces are examined and, appropriate ACLs can be applied in
both the ingress and egress direction. Flow-based monitoring conserves bandwidth by monitoring only
specied trac instead all trac on the interface. This feature is particularly useful when looking for
malicious trac. It is available for Layer 2 and Layer 3 ingress and egress trac. You may specify trac using
standard or extended access-lists. This mechanism copies all incoming or outgoing packets on one port and
forwards (mirrors) them to another port. The source port is the monitored port (MD) and the destination
port is the monitoring port (MG).
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Access Control Lists (ACL)