Mirror Services
7750 SR OS Services Guide Page 1353
slice-size
Syntax slice-size bytes
no slice-size
Context config>mirror>mirror-dest 
Description This command enables mirrored frame truncation and specifies the maximum size, in bytes, of a mir-
rored frame that can be transmitted to the mirror destination.
This command enables mirroring larger frames than the destination packet decode equipment can 
handle. It also allows conservation of mirroring resources by limiting the size of the packet stream 
through the router and the core network.
When defined, the mirror slice-size creates a threshold that truncates a mirrored frame to a specific 
size. For example, if the value of 256 bytes is defined, a frame larger than 256 bytes will only have 
the first 256 bytes transmitted to the mirror destination. The original frame is not affected by the trun-
cation. The mirrored frame size may increase if encapsulation information is added during transmis-
sion through the network core or out the mirror destination SAP to the packet/protocol decode 
equipment.
The actual capability of the 7750 SR to transmit a sliced or non-sliced frame is also dictated by the 
mirror destination SDP path-mtu and/or the mirror destination SAP physical MTU. Packets that 
require a larger MTU than the mirroring destination supports are discarded if the defined slice-size 
does not truncate the packet to an acceptable size.
The no form of the command disables mirrored packet truncation.
Default no slice-size — Mirrored packet truncation is disabled.
Parameters bytes — The number of bytes to which mirrored frames will be truncated, expressed as a decimal 
integer.
Values 128 — 9216