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¿Qué es Network tap, port mirroring?

También llamado: network tap · port mirroring

Definition 2.7 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Capítulo 2 — Switches and Layer-1 Devices

A network tap is a device inserted in a link that copies its traffic to monitoring ports; a passive optical tap does it by splitting the light of each fibre, sending a fixed share (its split ratio) to the monitor, needs no power and adds only the length of its fibre. Port mirroring is a switch’s copying of the traffic of some of its ports to another port, in software or in its forwarding hardware.

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