I know port mirroring is supported, however I've never implemented it. SPAN isn't supported; its cisco proprietary. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Marek Kierdelewicz <marek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >>Is there a way to port mirroring/SPAN on a linux bridge? If so, what >>would I need to do to set it up? I'm hoping to port morror to >>vboxnet0. > > Mirroring functionality is build into ifb[1]. There's tc action "mirred > egress mirror" which, used in a proper context, can mirror ingress > and/or egress traffic to other interface. In your case, mirrored > interface would be br0. > > Here [2] our colegue is describing ingress mirroring from eth1 to > eth2-5. > > And important note here [3] about using "protocol all" in tc filter, if > you also want to get non-ip traffic mirrored. > > [1] > http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/ifb#IFB_Example > [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128853067804910&w=2 > [3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128861016403775&w=2 > > Best regards, > Marek Kierdelewicz > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
