Chris writes:

> I personally am not familiar with a spamming port on any switch.
> If you could be a little more specific, I could probably help more.

I think he meant a "spanned" port, at least it fits Cisco terminology on
higher-end Catalysts (the IOS-based XL series has another term I
think). You can specify that traffic on one port, or VLan, be copied to
a specified destination port. You can then attach a sniffer or IDS
device to that port. Just avoids re-plumbing it through a hub and the
associated half-duplex issues to accomplish the same thing.

Jeff Kell <jeff-kellutc.edu>

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