Does SPAN source cant be pingable

[ZAHIDHASEEB]

We configured SPAN on a Cisco switch 3750. After configuration of SPAN, the machine which is connected with Gi3/0/4 is not able to ping source port(Gi3/0/2) IP. Below snapshot is from my Cisco switch

 

[Mike.Cifelli]

SPAN ports only mirror data that you are sniffing with your analyzer.  Once you configure 3/0/4 as the span destination and default the interface it will go into 'monitoring'.  Therefore will not be able to ping your source interface.  

[ZAHIDHASEEB]

Thanks for your response.

So my understanding is that, packets will be mirrored from source to destination but we cant ping both interfaces. right ?

[Mike.Cifelli]

Yes.  However, your source interface should still be pingable from other interfaces, excluding your destination monitoring port.