This is the retired Shane Killen personal blog, an IT technical blog about configs and topics related to the Network and Security Engineer working with Cisco, Brocade, Check Point, and Palo Alto and Sonicwall. I hope this blog serves you well. -- May The Lord bless you and keep you. May He shine His face upon you, and bring you peace.
Friday, September 27, 2013
Palo Alto: What Does It Mean To Put A Palo Alto In 'Tap' Mode?
If you are not used to Palo Alto, you might not understand 'tap' mode. The Palo Alto 'tap' port is directly connected to the 'mirrored' port on the core switch (or any switch). You are 'tapped' into the mirrored port of the switch. See the below topology. Its just like putting your laptop on the network with Wireshark so that you can capture data. Same with the Palo.
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Check Point offers this too. ;)
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