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. Why not hook up a hub to the monitoring port?