SPAN session on 6509

[madan.gaurav]

Hi ,

We have a site running 6509 switch . It has 2 SPAN sessions running fine.

Source of SPAN session : 8 ports

Destination : 2 ports

i.e first span session has 8 src ports and 1 destination port

second span session has same 8 source ports and 2nd destination port.

Now my task is to mirror traffic of same 8 input ports to 3rd destination port.

My question is :

1) Is number of SPAN sessions (local SPAN) dependent on software version ?

2) Is number of SPAN sessions (local SPAN) dependent on hardware like SUP cards ?

3) Is number of SPAN sessions (local SPAN) dependent on line cards where source and destination are hosted ?

If possible ; please point to documentation which can point to maximum number of SPAN sessions supported .

Thanks

[madan.gaurav]

The version that I am using is :

Cisco IOS Software, s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-ADVIPSERVICESK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(33)SXI9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2)

[Iulian Vaideanu]

It only seems to be "loosely" dependent on IOS version - this is for SXH and later (I'm not sure what it's like on SXF):

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/span.html