Linux G-vTAP Agent Installation

Refer to the following sections for the Linux agent installation:

• Single ENI Configuration
• Dual ENI Configuration
• Install G-vTAP Agents

Single ENI Configuration

A single ENI acts both as the source and the destination interface. A G-vTAP Agent with a single ENI configuration lets you monitor the ingress or egress traffic from the ENI. The monitored traffic is sent out using the same ENI.

For example, assume that there is only one interface eth0 in the monitoring instance. In the G-vTAP configuration, you can configure eth0 as the source and the destination interface, and specify both egress and ingress traffic to be selected for monitoring purpose. The egress and ingress traffic from eth0 is mirrored and sent out using the same interface.

Using a single ENI as the source and the destination interface can sometimes cause increased latency in sending the traffic out from the instance.

Dual ENI Configuration

A G-vTAP Agent lets you configure two ENIs. One ENI can be configured as the source interface and another ENI can be configured as the destination interface.

For example, assume that there is eth0 and eth1 in the monitoring instance. In the G-vTAP Agent configuration, eth0 can be configured as the source interface and egress traffic can be selected for monitoring purpose. The eth1 interface can be configured as the destination interface. So, the mirrored traffic from eth0 is sent to eth1. From eth1, the traffic is sent to the GigaVUE V Series node.