> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wes Peters > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:06 PM > To: Steven Stremciuc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Looking for switch recommendations ... > > > Every switch that does port mirroring probably has some > problems related to port mirroring, because mirroring > typically cannot be done in hardware. If nothing else, you > can expect some degraded performance on the port(s) being > mirrored and on the port doing the mirroring, because the > packets have to be fondled by the CPU before they can be > switched. Even with a really fast processor, this will > increase the latency a bit.
This is an untrue statement. There are several switch vendors that pride themselves on their wire-speed mirroring capabilities - specifically their ability to do it in hardware. Foundry's BigIron and the like comes to mind as a highly reliable and fairly inexpensive (subjective) switch that is very capable of doing multi-port wirespeed mirroring at line rate. .chance _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
