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author | Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com> | 2016-12-19 23:05:39 +0100 |
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committer | Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com> | 2016-12-28 12:25:14 +0100 |
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diff --git a/src/vnet/span/span.md b/src/vnet/span/span.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ee3f814f5c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/vnet/span/span.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# VPP SPAN implementation + +This is a memo intended to contain documentation of the VPP SPAN implementation. +Everything that is not directly obvious should come here. + + +## Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) +Port mirroring is used on a network switch to send a copy of network packets seen on one switch port to a network monitoring connection on another switch port. +Can be used by network engineers or administrators to measure performnce, analyze and debug data or diagnose errors on a network. + +### RX traffic node +There is one static node to mirror incomming packets. +* span-input: Creates a copy of incomming buffer due to incomming buffers can be reused internally. + +Chaining: dpdk-input -> span-input -> +* original buffer is sent to ethernet-input for processing +* buffer copy is sent to interface-output + +### Configuration +SPAN supports the following CLI configuration commands: + +#### Enable/Disable SPAN (CLI) + set interface span <if-name> [disable | destination <if-name>] + +<if-name>: mirrored interface name +destination <if-name>: monitoring interface name +disable: delete mirroring + +#### Enable/Disabl SPAN (API) +SPAN supports the following API configuration command: + sw_interface_span_enable_disable src GigabitEthernet0/8/0 dst GigabitEthernet0/9/0 + sw_interface_span_enable_disable src_sw_if_index 1 dst_sw_if_index 2 + +src/src_sw_if_index: mirrored interface name +dst/dst_sw_if_index: monitoring interface name + +#### Remove SPAN entry (API) +SPAN supports the following API configuration command: + sw_interface_span_enable_disable src_sw_if_index 1 dst_sw_if_index 2 disable + +src_sw_if_index: mirrored interface name +dst_sw_if_index: monitoring interface name + +### Configuration example + +Mirror all packets on interface GigabitEthernet0/10/0 to interface GigabitEthernet0/11/0. + +Configure IPv4 addresses on mirrored interface: +set interface ip address GigabitEthernet0/10/0 192.168.1.13/24 +set interface state GigabitEthernet0/10/0 up + +Configure IPv4 addresses on monitoring interface: +set interface ip address GigabitEthernet0/11/0 192.168.2.13/24 +set interface state GigabitEthernet0/11/0 up + +Configure SPAN +set span src GigabitEthernet0/10/0 dst GigabitEthernet0/11/0 + +### Operational data + +Active SPAN mirroring CLI show command: + show interfaces span + +Active SPAN mirroring API dump command: + sw_interface_span_dump |