Monitoring port status on Cat 2950

[ns]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what the monitoring status means in the sh int fa x/x command output? I can't find in the documentation.

FastEthernet0/23 is up, line protocol is down (monitoring)

Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 000c.30e9.cd57 (bia 000c.30e9.cd57)

MTU 1500 bytes, BW 100000 Kbit, DLY 1000 usec,

reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255

Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set

Keepalive set (10 sec)

Full-duplex, 100Mb/s

input flow-control is off, output flow-control is off

ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

Last input never, output 1d00h, output hang never

Last clearing of "show interface" counters 4w0d

Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0

Queueing strategy: fifo

Output queue :0/40 (size/max)

5 minute input rate 0 bits/sec, 0 packets/sec

5 minute output rate 397000 bits/sec, 51 packets/sec

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The switch is using IOS 12.1(13)EA1b.

Thanks,

Niels

[glen.grant]

Did you look in your config and see if this port is being used as span (monitor) port ? Maybe it's turned on .

[steve.busby]

Do a "show monitor" and see what monitoring you have enabled.

If you don't want any monitoring go into global config mode and do a "no monitor session all"

Here's a link to explain it:

http://cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/switches/ps628/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00800d84c5.html#51962