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IDS: Cisco switches and fiber taps

Cisco switches and fiber taps

From: Carl Johnson <Carl.Johnson_at_Overture.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:03:54 -0800

Hi everyone,

I'm at a loss with how to get gigabit fiber data to my IDS. I've got a
6-station NetOptics gig fiber tap. It's outputting data fine, but when I
connect the output from the tap to multimode SC GBICs on my 3550-12G Cisco
switch, I can't see any of the data. The Cisco switch won't show the ports
as "up", I guess because only the receive half of the fiber is connected as
far as the switch is concerned - transmit side not connected.

What I'm trying to is described EXACTLY here:

http://www.sans.org/rr/intrusion/internal.php

Except that I have the 3550-12G switch instead of a 4912.

To have a SPAN session on the switch (to consolidate the data from the tap)
the ports have to be up. Any idea how I can get the Cisco to recognize the
incoming data?

Thanks very much!
Carl

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Received on Apr 02 2003

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