25 Feb
2000
25 Feb
'00
12:09 p.m.
The aggregate bandwidth of the MAE makes them using a SPAN port virtually impossible. If memory serves, the MAE traffic is several times 100Mbps.
SPAN ports were not always infeasible and certainly are quite
Various switch vendors are promissing SPAN in conjunction with dynamically configurable L3 filtering. This has innocent uses too. -- Alex Bligh VP Core Network, Concentric Network Corporation (formerly GX Networks, Xara Networks)