Port mirror (span)

To a VIRT (KVM)

I wanted to test out some software (ntop, manageengine netflow, prtg, pmacct, etc) using a port mirror on a switch. This required I be able to use the one mirror destination with multiple virts (kvm guests). It was simple enough as configuring the nic on the host OS as a bridge and giving the virts a second ethernet device in that bridge group. The only issue I ran into was that fact I could not see any traffic other than broadcast/multicast.

FIX: use brctl setageingtime 0 to ensure no addresses are learned and all packets not destined to the bridge host are forwarded across the interfaces (act as a hub)

<source>

#Bridge Interface: br2
brctl setageing br2 0
brctl setfd br2 0

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• Sadly you cannot set these in the ifcfg-br# configs.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662617

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4675

persistence

* run a startup script automatically after a network interface is up on CentOS
* This is the /sbin/ifup-local method

Everytime a device goes up or down a script will be run if it exists and is executable

• this is how the script is called...

#/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases:
if [ -x /sbin/ifup-local ]; then
     /sbin/ifup-local ${DEVICE}

#/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post:
if [ -x /sbin/ifup-local ]; then
     /sbin/ifup-local ${DEVICE}

#/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post
if [ -x /sbin/ifdown-local ]; then
     /sbin/ifdown-local ${DEVICE}

Create your script

<source>

sudo emacs /sbin/ifup-local

</source> <source> if "$1" == "br0" then

 brctl setageing br2 0
 ## or you can use the variable. I'm just paranoid and only want br2 to use this setting
 # brctl setageing $1 0
 # add any other commands here..

else

 # do nothing.. or something?

fi </source> <source>

sudo chmod +x /sbin/ifup-local

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