Rockwell Automation 1783-BMxxx Stratix 5700 Ethernet Managed Switches User Manual - Manual (Page 113)

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Switch Software Features Chapter 3
Port Mirroring Port mirroring is for advanced users with experience in troubleshooting traffic
and protocol issues on networks. The port mirroring feature copies (or mirrors)
traffic on one port to a monitoring port where the packet can be captured by a
network protocol analyzer tool. Use port mirroring as a diagnostic tool or
debugging feature.
Port mirroring does not affect the switching of network traffic on the monitored
port. You must dedicate a monitoring port for port mirroring use. Except for
traffic that is being copied for the port mirroring session, the monitoring port
does not receive or forward traffic.
You can configure port mirroring by assigning the Port Mirroring Smartport role
on a switch port via the Device Manager Web interface.
Routing The switch supports these forms of routing:
• Static routing—Defines explicit paths between two devices (routers and
switches). You must manually define the route information, including the
destination IP address, destination subnet mask, and next hop router IP
address.
• Connected routing—Enables all devices on any VLAN that use the switch
to communicate with each other if they use the switch as their default
gateway. Connected routing is automatically enabled if you enable static
routing. To disable connected routing and prevent inter-VLAN
communication, you must configure access control lists (ACLs) by using
the CLI.
Enabling routing is a two-step process within the Device Manager Web interface:
1. Reallocate switch memory for routing by changing the Switch Database
Management (SDM) template from the default template to the
Lanbase Routing template.
2. Enable connected routing only.
or
Enable and configure static routing, which enables connected routing by
default.