Hi John Ahh ok. So i think this is how it works. The ERSPAN source on your 5K is whatever source interface/vlan you want to monitor the ingress/egress/both traffic of and the destination is going to be the L3 IP address of your 7K that you want to r...

Hi John Just out of curiosity are these devices connected using a L2 Trunk? If so, wouldn't RSPAN work? Cheers

Hi Aaron As long as there are no unsaved changes on the equiptment then no you shouldn't lose any configuration. That is unless password recovery has been disabled which will in that case wipe the config.  For Switches, the password recovery procedu...

Hi Aaron Without knowing the credentials i don't believe there is a way to login without rebooting and going through the password recovery procedure. Are you worried there are unsaved changes on the devices? Cheers