CHAPTER 16
Configuring SPAN 175
Information About SPAN 176
SPAN Sources 176
Characteristics of Source Ports 176
SPAN Destinations 177
Characteristics of Destination Ports 177
Multiple SPAN Destinations 177
SPAN with ACL 178
SPAN on Drop 178
SPAN-on-Latency Sessions 178
Guidelines and Limitations for SPAN 178
Creating or Deleting a SPAN Session 181
Configuring an Ethernet Destination Port 182
Configuring MTU Truncation for Each SPAN Session 183
Configuring the Rate Limit for SPAN Traffic 183
Configuring Source Ports 184
Configuring Source Port Channels, VSANs, or VLANs 185
Configuring the Description of a SPAN Session 185
Configuring an ACL Filter for a SPAN Session 186
Configuring a SPAN-on-Drop Session 187
Configuring a SPAN-on-Latency Session 188
Activating a SPAN Session 189
Suspending a SPAN Session 190
Troubleshooting SPAN session issues 190
Troubleshooting SPAN session with large number of source ports issues 190
Displaying SPAN Information 191
Configuration Example for a SPAN ACL 192
Configuration Example for SPAN-on-Latency Session 192
CHAPTER 17
Configuring ERSPAN 193
Information About ERSPAN 193
ERSPAN Source Sessions 193
Monitored Traffic 194
ERSPAN Types 194
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