SPAN Scaling Challenge
I’m facing a mini scaling challenge with Cisco SPAN (Switched Port ANalyzer) session and thought it would be good to share it with you fine folk. SPAN Challenge A 3750X switch is currently SPAN-ing a 10Gbps interface to a 1Gbps egress port. A server is directly attached and is using dump cap to capture a subset (5%) of the overall traffic for analysis. The 10G link under-utilised, but is running close to the 1Gbps traffic limit in the Rx direction. Tx traffic is very…