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Mark_Curole
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Dec 03, 2007

Recommended Configuration on a 1500 for mirroring

I am looking at mirroring some persistance and virtual servers. Our 1500 has several available interfaces. Does it make sense to use a cross over cable and setup a private VLAN to do the mirroring?

 

 

If I use a crossover cable would I hard strap the interfaces to 1000Full? Would it be better to connect through a switch.
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  • Nicolas_Berthie's avatar
    Nicolas_Berthie
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    Dec 04, 2007
    I think the better is way is to use failover VLAN. This VLAN should be a private VLAN different from all other "traffic" VLAN on separate physical interfaces. If it possible I recommend you to use a cross over cable directly connected to both unit and configure your ports in auto-negotiation for Gigabit Ethernet.

     

     

    Regards,

     

     

    Nicolas