Tap manufactures will be sure to tell you of many issues. The main concern I would have is that it is possible for a switch to drop frames of a SPAN. Your decision might be influenced based on your application and the impact of such errors (billing, lawful intercept, forensics). A tap vendors take: http://www.networkcritical.com/What-are-Network-Taps On a somewhat related note, I will mention that TNAPI from ntop is quite handy. http://www.ntop.org/TNAPI.html <http://www.networkcritical.com/What-are-Network-Taps>--D On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Bein, Matthew <mbein@iso-ne.com> wrote:
As I was doing a design today. I found that I had a bunch of 100 MB connections that I was going to bring into a aggregation tap. Then I was thinking, why don't I use a switch like a Cisco 3560 to gain more density. Anyone run into this? Any down falls with using a switch to aggregate instead of a true port aggregator??
Regards,
Matthew
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