03-03-2005 12:48 PM - edited 03-05-2019 11:27 AM
We need to span a port on a Cat-6506 switch. Can a source port and a desination port be on two different VLANs or do they have to be on the same Vlan?
thanks.
03-03-2005 01:06 PM
You should be able to keep the ports on seperate vlans and still run the span session. I am able to do this with the cat switches at org. that I work for without any issues.
One side note: If the span tool is actually participating in the sessions, that is it acts as a client as well as a protocol analyzer, then I would keep the source and dest ports in the same vlan.
Let me know if you need any more help.
03-03-2005 01:11 PM
Thanks for your response.The customer is also asking to enable the inpkts on the destination port and I have read it could cause a bridging loop because no STP is running on the desitation SPAN port. How risky is to enable this feature?
thanks again.
03-07-2005 11:22 AM
You should be OK if you're carefull what you connect to the port. Keep the connection to a single host and you're fine.
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