[PVE-User] Network Tap?

[Tony Zakula]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Tony Zakula <tony at zakula.com> wrote:
> I was considering buying a hardware network tap to measure traffic.
> Then I was investigating using a white box to load a linux based
> passive network tap.  Then I saw a few articles that said Qemu uses
> the tun and tap driver for vm to host based networking.  I then
> thought, can you create a software based tap" that sends a copy of all
> network traffic from each VM to another machine?  Meaning the bare
> metal machine with the physical interface would capture a copy of all
> network traffic coming from the VM and forward that to another
> machine?  Anyone ever do something like this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony Z
>

Or another way would be to use the network bridge, but have a mirror
port on the bridge.  Is this possible?