ERSPAN on Nexus
Today, while troubleshooting a reported SIP trunking issue, I was seeing a firewall claiming it was transmitting packets, but they were not seen by the downstream endpoint. I didn’t trust the ASA packet capture in this case, so I decided to collect traffic from its immediately-connected device, a Nexus 7009, to verify. Cisco has a technote for a configuration example on this platform. ERSPAN is handy to be able to do ad-hoc troubleshooting when you need to a packet capture from a remote device, so I configured an erspan-source session to capture traffic on that particular interface and sent it to a remote Linux machine. ...