Do you use a network tap or SPAN (Switched Port Analyzer)/ RSPAN (Remote Switched Port Analyzer) when doing network troubleshooting?
This discussion has come up quite often in the field. Here are my thoughts …
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We’ve seen this before and have shown it in some of our training sessions in the past. Glad it was posted on the web. It shows an animated (yet educational) way of how the internet works.
Inter-networking aside, I like how it shows the data packets are padded, striped and formed back together again, and how the network components are broken down — a rudimentary way of what happens behind the scenes in a tradition Ethernet network. This is a must see for everyone trying to grasp the concept of Ethernet networking.
Part 1
Part 2
