https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/voss-mirror-of-more-traffic-that-the-destination-port-can-handle/m-p/93755#M1969 <P>Hi all,</P><P>I want to mirror ALL routed traffic on a VSP 7400 core router, in order to analyse VLAN to VLAN traffic with a firewall appliance running in monitor mode.<BR />My 10G destination port should be able to handle normal activity, but it won't be able to cope with activity peaks.</P><P>Will VOSS handle this situation gracefully?<BR />Will mirrored traffic that cannot be forwarded quickly enough just be dropped, or will buffers fill up everywhere and slow down everything?</P><P>I'm asking because I saw another vendor's equipment melt down awfully in a similar situation a few years ago.</P> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:02:44 GMT Nicolas_Melay 2022-11-18T02:02:44Z https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/voss-mirror-of-more-traffic-that-the-destination-port-can-handle/m-p/93755#M1969 <P>Hi all,</P><P>I want to mirror ALL routed traffic on a VSP 7400 core router, in order to analyse VLAN to VLAN traffic with a firewall appliance running in monitor mode.<BR />My 10G destination port should be able to handle normal activity, but it won't be able to cope with activity peaks.</P><P>Will VOSS handle this situation gracefully?<BR />Will mirrored traffic that cannot be forwarded quickly enough just be dropped, or will buffers fill up everywhere and slow down everything?</P><P>I'm asking because I saw another vendor's equipment melt down awfully in a similar situation a few years ago.</P> Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:02:44 GMT https://community.extremenetworks.com/t5/extremeswitching-vsp-fabric/voss-mirror-of-more-traffic-that-the-destination-port-can-handle/m-p/93755#M1969 Nicolas_Melay 2022-11-18T02:02:44Z