All,
I hope you are well and can pls assist with my following request
We have an IPS4255 installed in our data centre and want to cature traffic from all PCI related servers
we are planning to use all 4 interfaces on the IPS
all interfaces will connect to seperate switches.
The switches are a combination of 3750X and Nexus 5000s.
WE will have a local span running on the switches and the destionation of the span will be one of the interfaces on the IPS.
Below is an example for the destination port that connects to the IPS from one of the switces
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/10
description PCI-SPANPORT-IPS4200
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
speed 1000
duplex full
udld port aggressive
spanning-tree guard root
monitor session 2 source interface Gi1/0/1
monitor session 2 destination interface Gi1/0/10
monitor session 2 filter ip access-group IPS-SPAN
My question
It there a possibility for a loop to occur between the IPS and the 4 switches connected to the differeent ports on the IPS 4255 will the IPS tranmit ot recive BPDU etc or bridge between switches.
Kind Regards,
Zee
