Filter
Top Products
Troubleshooting and Verification
40
SonicOS 5.7: Advanced Switching Feature Guide and Screencast Tutorial
The X20, X24, and X25 interfaces are shown below on the Network > Interfaces page. You can see that all
three are gigabit Ethernet ports, that the Zone for X20 is Unassigned and it is configured as a Mirror Port,
and that X24 and X25 are configured as VLAN Trunk ports. X25 is marked as a member of a Logical Link.
Using Wireshark
Wireshark is a popular, open source network analysis tool that runs on Windows or Mac OS X computers.
It allows you to analyze network traffic at the frame or packet level. You can download Wireshark for free
from http://www.wireshark.org/.
To use Wireshark to view the mirrored packets from the SonicWALL NSA 2400MX:
Step 1 Connect the SonicWALL NSA 2400MX port X20 to a gigabit Ethernet interface on your Wireshark
computer.
Step 2 To view only Layer 2 traffic in Wireshark, open Network Connections on the computer and right-click the
gigabit interface you are using.
Step 3 Select Properties in the drop-down list.
Step 4 Clear the checkboxes for IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.
Step 5 Click OK.