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Figure 21-2. Number of Monitoring Ports
In Figure 21-3, 0/25 and 0/26 belong to Port-pipe 1. This port-pipe again has the same restriction of only
four destination ports, new or used.
Figure 21-3. Number of Monitoring Ports
A source port may only be monitored by one destination port (Message 3), but a destination port may
monitor more than one source port.
Message 3 One Destination Port in a Monitoring Session Error Message
% Error: Exceeding max MG ports for this MD port pipe.
Message 4 One Destination Port per Source Port Error Message
% Error: MD port is already being monitored.
FTOS(conf)#mon ses 300
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#source tengig 0/17 destination tengig 0/4 direction tx
% Error: Exceeding max MG ports for this MD port pipe.
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#source tengig 0/17 destination tengig 0/1 direction tx
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#do show mon session
SessionID Source Destination Direction Mode Type
--------- ------ ----------- --------- ---- ----
0 TenGig 0/13 TenGig 0/1 rx interface Port-based
10 TenGig 0/14 TenGig 0/2 rx interface Port-based
20 TenGig 0/15 TenGig 0/3 rx interface Port-based
30 TenGig 0/16 TenGig 0/37 rx interface Port-based
300 TenGig 0/17 TenGig 0/1 tx interface Port-based
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#do show mon session
SessionID Source Destination Direction Mode Type
--------- ------ ----------- --------- ---- ----
0 TenGig 0/13 TenGig 0/1 rx interface Port-based
10 TenGig 0/14 TenGig 0/2 rx interface Port-based
20 TenGig 0/15 TenGig 0/3 rx interface Port-based
30 TenGig 0/16 TenGig 0/37 rx interface Port-based
100 TenGig 0/25 TenGig 0/38 tx interface Port-based
110 TenGig 0/26 TenGig 0/39 tx interface Port-based
300 TenGig 0/17 TenGig 0/1 tx interface Port-based
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-300)#