Port mirroring on FreeBSD

[Jason Hellenthal]

Generic solution ? Splice into the original sending cable to duplicate the traffic directly off the line itself ?

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 Jason Hellenthal
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> On Jan 18, 2014, at 1:58, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have this weird requirement that I am juggling right now and I
> wanted to reach out to larger audience:
> 
> In this box I have 2 dualport ixgbe 10G cards. On ingress, I want to
> get data off of 2 ports of first 10G card and lagg/lacp them into 1
> stream of data. But for outgoing, I want to have 2 identical streams
> of data going out on 2 ports of the second 10G card. (not
> load-balancing but more of a mirroring).
> 
> The reason for this is, I need to be able to provide same data to 2
> different application hosts downstream for monitoring. Something like:
> http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos13.2/topics/concept/port-mirroring-ex-series.html
> 
> I believe a regular switch might be perfect but for I could not find
> anything simple in FreeBSD to do that.
> 
> Luigi: Can netmap/vale be helpful here?
> 
> Any other pointers would be really appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hiren
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