Sun Gigabit cards

[Peter Van Epp]

	You need two gige cards and use the receive port from each (or as 
you say a monitor port that combines what it can on a switch). Argus is able
to listen on both ports at once. There is an interesting 3c905 driver on
Linux that channel bonds, which may be able to do the trick of combining
two input streams in to one as well (I don't know of a Gige implementation
though).

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

> 
> Hi
> 
> We moved up in speed and the only way to have any kind of monitor was
> to use a Sun ge card in an Ultra-10 however even with a Shomiti tap I
> am now only able to see half the traffic. The Shomiti converts the TX,
> RX to 2 RX but the Sun card is only listeningo the RX fibre.
> 
> has anyone already gone through this and found a way to 'listen' on the
> TX port of the ge interface so that both direction sof the flows can be
> used by argus?
> 
> Don't suppose there is any neat trick simply by using ndd -set /dev/ge
> ?
> 
> Anyone doing GE on Linux/FreeBSD without having to use 2 cards?
> 
> I am trying to avoid having to use an 'analyser' port on the router for
> performance reasons.
> 
> Cheers
> Neil
> 
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