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Chapter 28 Configuring Port Mirroring
28.1 Configuring Port Mirroring Task List
 Configuring port mirroring
 Displaying port mirroring information
28.2 Configuring Port Mirroring Task
28.2.1 Configuring Port Mirroring
Through configuring port mirroring, you can use one port of a switch to observe the traffic on a group of ports.
S2524, S2516 and S2524GX have only one destination port and one souce port for mirroring.
Enter the privilege mode and perform the following steps to configure port mirroring:
Command Description
configure Enters the global configuration mode.
mirror session
session_number {
destination
{
interface
interface-id} |
source
{
interface
interface-id [, | -]rx ] }
Configures port mirroring.
session-number
is the number of the port
mirroring.
destination
is the destination port of the
mirroring.
source
is the source port of mirroring.
rx
means the input data of mirroring.
exit Enters the management mode again.
write Saves the configuration.
28.2.2 Displaying Port Mirroring Information
Run show to display the configuration information of port mirroring.
Command Description
show mirror [session session_number] Displays the configuration information about
port mirroring.
session-number
is the number of the port
mirroring.
28.3 Remote Mirroring Configuration Example
The network topology is shown in the following figure: