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Chapter2Cisco IOS Commands for the Catalyst 4500 Series Switches
monitor session
Defaults Received and transmitted traffic, as well as all VLANs, packet types, and address types are monitored
on a trunking interface.
Packets are transmitted untagged out the destination port; ingress and learning are disabled.
Command Modes Global configuration
Command History
queue queue_id Specifies that only traffic received on the specific CPU
subqueue should be copied to the destination of the session.
Valid values are from 1 to 32, or by the following names: all,
control-packet, rpf-failure, adj-same-if, nfl, mtu-exceeded,
unknown-sa, span, acl input, acl input log, acl input error, acl
input forward, acl input punt, acl output, acl output log, acl
output error, acl output forward, acl output punt, bridged,
bridged 1, bridged 2, bridged 3, bridged 4, routed received,
routed received 1, routed received 2, routed received 3, routed
received 4, routed forward, routed forward 1, routed forward 2,
routed forward 3, and routed forward 4.
, (Optional) Symbol to specify another range of SPAN VLANs;
valid values are from 1 to 4094.
- (Optional) Symbol to specify a range of SPAN VLANs.
both (Optional) Monitors and filters received and transmitted traffic.
rx (Optional) Monitors and filters received traffic only.
tx (Optional) Monitors and filters transmitted traffic only.
filter Limits SPAN source traffic to specific VLANs.
vlan vlan_id (Optional) Specifies the VLAN to be filtered. The number is
entered as a single value or a range; valid values are from 1to
4094.
packet-type Limits SPAN source traffic to packets of a specified type.
good Specifies a good packet type
bad Specifies a bad packet type.
address-type unicast | multicast |
broadcast
Limits SPAN source traffic to packets of a specified address
type. Valid types are unicast, multicast, and broadcast.
Release Modification
12.1(8a)EW Support for this command was introduced on the Catalyst 4500 series switch.
12.1(11b)EW Support for differing directions within a single-user session and extended VLAN
addressing was added.
12.1(19)EW Support for ingress packets, encapsulation specification, packet and address type
filtering, and CPU source sniffing enhancements.
12.1(20)EW Support for remote SPAN and host learning on ingress-enabled destination ports
was added.