Cisco SPAN Sample Topology
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How to configure SPAN and RSPAN in Cisco Catalyst switches

October 17, 2014

Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) allows you to send a copy of traffic passing through ports to another port on the switch. SPAN is important to mirror received or transmitted (or both) traffic on one or more source ports to a destination port for analysis. While SPAN is mirroring ports in the same switch, RSPAN(Remote SPAN) is mirroring ports in one switch to a port in different switch.

Posted inLinux Slackware

Console Cisco devices using ATEN UC232A USB to Serial Converter on Slackware Linux

November 19, 2010
If you are also a Linux user that use Linux distro such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware, etc installed on your PC or laptop/notebook, it is a must that your Linux is able to configure the Cisco devices via the console port. In this tutorial I will show you how to console Cisco devices using ATEN UC232A USB to Serial Converter on Linux, I use Slackware 13.1 and using minicom tool.