http://www.firstdigest.com Technical blog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:15:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.firstdigest.com/2008/11/cisco-packet-sniffing/ http://www.firstdigest.com/2008/11/cisco-packet-sniffing/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:05:16 +0000 Calin http://www.firstdigest.com/?p=181 The official term of Cisco for Packet sniffing is  SPAN ( Switched Port Analyzer ) also called sometimes port mirroring or port monitoring and it’s purpose is to select traffic from a source and send to a destination with a network analyzer tool. You can find out there terms like RSPAN, PSPAN, VSPAN, ESPAN, but this are at their basic functionality nothing more than SPAN with some enhanced features ( e.g. ESPAN – Enhanced SPAN ) or describing their primary functionality ( e.g. VSPAN – [...]]]> http://www.firstdigest.com/2008/11/cisco-packet-sniffing/feed/ 0