@techreport{foschiano-erspan-03, number = {draft-foschiano-erspan-03}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-foschiano-erspan/03/}, author = {Marco Foschiano and Kalyan Ghosh and Munish Mehta}, title = {{Cisco Systems' Encapsulated Remote Switch Port Analyzer (ERSPAN)}}, pagetotal = 16, year = 2017, month = feb, day = 22, abstract = {This document describes an IP-based packet capture format that can be used to transport exact copies of packets to a network probe to analyze and characterize the operational load and protocol distribution of a network as well as to detect anomalies such as network-based worms or viruses. This replication and transport mechanism operates over one or multiple switch or router ports whose traffic can be mirrored and forwarded to a destination device in charge of traffic analysis and reporting.}, }