[pox-dev] Port mirroring

[Murphy McCauley]

Everywhere that it adds an output action to a flow_mod or a packet_out, add an extra action to send it to the extra destination port as well.

You might consider using l2_pairs instead, since it's simpler.

-- Murphy

On Apr 11, 2014, at 12:59 PM, hassan hatim <hassanhtm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> 
> I came from a Cisco background with few programming skills, and interested
> to do some kind of extension for the l2_learning switch application for the
> pox controller to do port mirroring feature, where beside of forwarding
> packets to the proper destination, it forward them also to a specific port
> for monitoring. Just like SPAN in Cisco world, the administrator can specify
> what are the source ports (the monitored ports) and the destination port that
> capture all the packets form the source ports.
> 
> 
> Can I have guidance for how to do this?
> Thanks and regards.
> 
> /Hassan