[mythtv-users] Time Warner Junking STB's
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Mon Nov 25 18:28:15 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com>
> At home, I have a C4506 as my core switch, easy to mirror traffic from
> a port or a range of ports.
Braggart.
(For those not playing the home game, the 4506 is a 10RU modular
switch, good for close to 500 GigE ports. I had one as the core
switch at Get Motivated Seminars, serving well over 300 ports.)
> We also had inline sensors, which performed traffic analysis for certain
> undesired types of traffic. Actually, several layers of the things, some
> at our location, others at the primary links before traffic was
> filtered as either local or internet.
> To say that the problem could be complicated is to be mild.
Nicely put.
> In that particular network, we also used RSPAN and ERSPAN (different
> types of remote mirroring unique to Cisco (their mirroring is called
> SPAN). I'll not go into problems one can cause oneself if one unwisely
> mirrors certain ports, due to incompatibilities with certain switching
> protocols.
As long as you don't *loop* the ports... :-}
Cheers,
-- jra
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