Hello all,
I am building a solution for network monitoring and I have a question regardin RSPAN.
The idea is to have, lets say, 15 customers with direct optical links (L1-L2) connected to an aggregation switch and then from aggregation switch have a connection to stack of Catalyst 9300 to which monitoring probes are connected.
So the customer provides us with rspan vlan and session id, which is then transfered through aggregation switch to C9300 stack. On stack we configure the destination port of RSPAN for each customer to its appropriate monitoring probe.
For the aggregation switch I was thinking of using the Cisco C3850-24XS-S (24x SFP ports) with the 4x10Gb SFP+ networking module.
Now where the confusion comes is that while reading configuration gudies for switches I came up on prerequisites for RSPAN which states that the switch must be runing LAN base image. However the C9300 doesn't even come with this "licensing" any more, while the 3850 with optical ports also don't support this images.
Unfortunatley I cannot check the RSPAN config since I don't have a C9300 or an C3850 with optical ports to test this. Can somebody confirm RSPAN working on C9300 platform (or C3850 with IP Base?)
Is this even a valid solution or should I forget RSPAN in this case entirely?
Thank you!
