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Why sniffer can capture packet on switch

I use cisco 2900 seriesXL . After i ran Sniffer Pro
I can see packet from A to B , but my computer is C
There're many kind of packet http icmp
but there's some notice that this event is one-way
means A send to B but B not reply.......
I set nothing on switch...

Is switch becomes hub ???

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A switch does not mirror all traffic to all ports like a hub. Once the switch learns the layer 2 address for the devices hanging off of it, it will only forward unicast traffic to the port where the destination node is located.

If you want to capture the traffic on the entire switch, you need to configure a SPAN port. Keep in mind that SPAN ports can only span ports within the same VLAN. If you have more than one VLAN configured on your switch, you will need a seperate SPAN port.

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