What is SPAN or RSPAN?

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What is SPAN or RSPAN? ..

Answer / suthija

Switched port analyzer. remote switched port analyzer.
you can monitor traffic flowing to a port from another port.

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What is SPAN or RSPAN? ..

Answer / saurabh kulshreshtha

SPAN - this is the Switch Port Analyzer. It is synonymous with Port Mirroring. SPAN allows you to take all the traffic on a switch port, or multiple ports, even an entire vlan and copy it to a destination port.

RSPAN - is just Remote SPAN - here you can perform the above on Multiple Switches - traffic from multiple switches to your destination port.

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