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Monitors all traffic entering or leaving a single physical interface.
Monitors all traffic on all ports belonging to a specific VLAN.
Monitors all traffic on all member links of a port-channel interface.
Monitors traffic sent to or from the switch CPU (e.g., control plane).
Monitors all traffic on a contiguous set of VLANs.
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Correct answer & explanation
Source port: Monitors all traffic entering or leaving a single physical interface.
A source port monitors all traffic on that specific port; a source VLAN monitors all traffic on all ports in that VLAN; an EtherChannel source monitors all traffic on all member links of the EtherChannel.
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EtherChannel and Advanced Switching Technologies
Key term
Network Visibility
Network visibility is the ability to see, monitor, and understand all traffic and devices on a network to ensure security, performance, and troubleshooting.
Key term
SPAN and RSPAN
SPAN and RSPAN are Cisco features that copy network traffic from one or more ports to another port for analysis, with RSPAN extending this capability across multiple switches.
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