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SIXNET
managed switches make it easy to keep your network running trouble
free. A wide range of network statistics are readily available to
see if messages are being lost or corrupted. These statistics can
be polled via SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) or you can
let the switches report problems automatically as they occur using
SNMP notifications (traps). Then port mirroring enables advanced
troubleshooting to quickly find and fix networking issues. It makes
it possible (using third party network analyzer software) to monitor
the Ethernet messages on any port in the switch. Normally this is
not possible due to the inherent nature of Ethernet switches in
that they do not broadcast messages out all ports like an Ethernet
hub. However, port mirroring allows the messages from one or more
source ports to be copied to one or more target ports. |