Date: 14 Jun 2005 14:00:31 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Ted Wisniewski <ted@ness.plymouth.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a mirror port Message-ID: <44fyvkbyyo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200506141143.23368.ted@wiz.plymouth.edu> References: <200506141143.23368.ted@wiz.plymouth.edu>
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Ted Wisniewski <ted@ness.plymouth.edu> writes: > I have a FreeBSD box with three Nic's; what I would like to do is mimic the > functionality of a "mirror-port" commonly found on switches. > > On a routing firewall I would like traffic from say sk0 destined to sk1 and > vice versa to be mirrored on xl0 for purposes of network management. > > I am pretty sure this can be done, but what is the easiest/best way do > implement? How would this be done for a bridging firewall? Sounds like exactly what ng_tee(4) was created for...
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