[ovs-discuss] About side effect of port mirroring

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Oct 4 14:46:02 UTC 2017


On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:54:39PM +0900, Kurokawa Ryota wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I will use port mirroring.
> I learned how to use port mirroring by looking at the manual. 
> 
> I have one question.
> 
> 「As a side effect, port mirroring causes any packets received on output port to be ignored.」
> 
> What does this mean?
> Does that mean that any packets received on output port will be dropped when they arrive at the switch?

Yes.


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