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Rspan vlans and source and destination switches, Configure an existing vlan as an rspan vlan – NETGEAR AV Line M4250 GSM4210PX 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Compliant Managed AV Switch with SFP (220W) User Manual

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RSPAN VLANs and source and destination
switches

You can configure a VLAN as a remote switched port analyzer (RSPAN) VLAN. RSPAN
lets you mirror traffic from multiple source ports (or from all ports that are members of
a VLAN) from different network devices and send the mirrored traffic to a destination
port (a probe port connected to a network analyzer) on a remote device. The mirrored
traffic is tagged with the RSPAN VLAN ID and transmitted over trunk ports in the RSPAN
VLAN.

A switch can function as an RSPAN source switch that sends traffic to another switch
that functions as an RSPAN destination switch. Because the switch supports multiple
RSPAN configurations, the switch can also function as an RSPAN destination switch that
receives traffic from another switch that functions as an RSPAN source switch.

Configure an existing VLAN as an RSPAN VLAN

You can configure an existing VLAN as an RSPAN VLAN.

To configure an existing VLAN as an RSPAN VLAN:

1. Launch a web browser.

2. In the address field of your web browser, enter the IP address of the switch.

The login page displays.

3. Click the Main UI Login button.

The main UI login page displays in a new tab.

4. Enter admin as the user name, enter your local device password, and click the Login

button.
The first time that you log in, no password is required. However, you then must
specify a local device password to use each subsequent time that you log in.

The System Information page displays.

5. Select Monitoring > Mirroring > RSPAN VLAN.

The RSPAN VLAN page displays.

6. Select the check box for the VLAN that must become an RSPAN VLAN.

7. From the Admin Mode menu, select Enable to configure the VLAN as an RSPAN

VLAN.
By default, the selection is Disable and the VLAN is not an RSPAN VLAN.

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