Why do you want to set up SPAN ports for this?  Do you have multiple VLAN's
that you want to pass across the bridge?

You should be able to just plug them in and make sure spanning tree is
configured properly.





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Kochie [mailto:ben at nerp.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:48 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Switches with multiple monitoring ports?
> 
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> why in the world would you need both linux servers to have 
> access to all
> traffic on the network, that's a really _bad_ idea when it comes to
> bandwidth, AND security.  the whole point of having a switch 
> is so that
> traffic between hosts doesn't affect traffic between other servers and
> hosts.  if you need to do failover, the 2 linux servers should have an
> active connection between them, which doesn't require that 
> they monitor
> traffic.
> 
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
> 
>  "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Jason Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> > We are trying to setup a couple of linux boxes to act as a bridge so
> > that we have some redundancy if one box fails. To do this the linux
> > boxes need to "see" each other and all traffic on the 
> network. However
> > we are using switches for security and the switches only have
> > capabilities for one monitoring port (a port that sees all 
> traffic, just
> > like a hub would do). We would need 2 monitoring ports on 
> each of our 2
> > switches to allow the bridges to work properly. So I would like some
> > suggestions on switches that would have more than one 
> monitoring port.
> > Right now we are using HP ProCurve 2424's.
> >
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