About This Document

Intended Audience

This document is intended for network engineers responsible for network design and deployment. You should understand your network well, including the network topology and service requirements.

Privacy Statement

The switch provides the mirroring function for network monitoring and fault management, during which communication data may be collected. Huawei will not collect or save user communication information independently. Huawei recommends that this function be used in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. You should take adequate measures to ensure that users' communications are fully protected when the content is used and saved.

Disclaimer

• This document is designed as a reference for you to configure your devices. Its contents, including web pages, command line input and output, are based on laboratory conditions. It provides instructions for general scenarios, but does not cover all use cases of all product models. The examples given may differ from your use case due to differences in software versions, models, and configuration files. When configuring your device, alter the configuration depending on your use case.

• The specifications provided in this document are tested in a lab environment (for example, a certain type of cards have been installed on the tested device or only one protocol is run on the device). Results may differ from the listed specifications when you attempt to obtain the maximum values due to factors such as differences in hardware configurations and carried services.

• In this document, public IP addresses may be used in feature introduction and configuration examples and are for reference only unless otherwise specified.

Symbol Conventions

The symbols that may be found in this document are defined as follows.