Limitations

The following limitations apply when configuring multiple mirroring sessions on a switch:

  • CPU generated packets egressing on a routed L3 interface will not be mirrored to the destination port.

  • Untagged egress packets that get mirrored will have the native VLAN tag in the mirrored packet. These extra bytes can cause traffic loss at the mirror destination when running line rate traffic.

  • True egress mirroring is not supported on 832x platforms. Egress mirroring takes place at the ingress. The packets that may get dropped at the egress might also have been mirrored at ingress. Traffic will be mirrored even before the policy actions are processed at the egress.

  • Packets mirrored to CPU from a Layer-3 Route Only Port (ROP) will have a VLAN tag with the VLAN ID set to the internal VLAN ID assigned to that port.

  • 832x platforms have 4 mirror ASIC resources that can be used among the different mirror sessions. Each direction in a mirror session will consume 1 mirror ASIC resource. Hence, a user can have up to 4 unidirectional mirror sessions or 2 bi-directional mirror sessions active at any given time. If there are no mirror ASIC resources available when attempting to enable a mirror session, the 'Operation Status' field of show mirror command for session ID will have the status set to 'platform_session_limit_reached.'

  • The mirror destination port among the active mirror sessions must be unique i.e. if an interface is configured as a source or destination in an active mirror session, the same port cannot be used as a destination in another active mirror session.

  • The interface/LAG used to transmit ERSPAN packets cannot be a source in any mirror session.

  • The interface/LAG used to transmit ERSPAN packets must be unique per ERSPAN mirror session. If a change in the L3 topology causes multiple ERSPAN mirror sessions to use the same egress interface/LAG to transmit the ERSPAN packets, then only one session will work. The other session(s) will go into an error state.