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5 making sniffer – KTI Networks 10/100 FAST ETHERNET MANAGED KS-801 User Manual

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The following figure illustrates a typical example of trunk connections

between three switch units. Each trunk is a 2-port trunk.

There are two trunks existing in this example. Each has 400Mbps band-

width. The top switch is configured to have two trunks and is cascaded

to four lower switch units.

3.5 Making Sniffer

The Port Sniffer is a method for monitor traffic in switched networks. Any

switched port can be defined as a sniffer port which can monitor one or

more port traffic. Normally, it is connected to a LAN analyzer equipment.

When doing sniffer, configure :

Monitored Ports

Configure the ports you want to monitor. All monitored port traffic will be

copied to the sniffer port. Up to 8 monitored ports can be selected in the

switch.

Sniffer Port

Sniffer port can be used to see all monitored port traffic. Any port can be

configured as a sniffer port. Only one sniffer port can be configured.