Mirroring on Dell Powerconnect

[TechieTony]

Morning All,

Now I know this is a "Cisco" switch forum but im sure you all can help me with this one. I a simply trying to perform port mirroring on my Dell PowerConnect 3448. I enter:

McCoySwitch1(config)# interface ethernet e1
McCoySwitch1(config-if)# port monitor e8
McCoySwitch1# show ports monitor

The switch will keep forwarding packets for about 3 min and then all transmission cease to exist after that. I cannot talk to the switch and nobody on the network can talk to anything else. But when I remove this command everything works perfectly.

Any thoughts... Here's my running config...


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interface vlan 1
ip address 10.10.0.111 255.255.255.0
exit
ip default-gateway 10.10.0.254
hostname McCoySwitch1
aaa authentication enable default line
aaa authentication login default line
line telnet
password e86b71e0141cf3af91963918de345440 encrypted
exit
line console
password e86b71e0141cf3af91963918de345440 encrypted
exit
username admin password e86b71e0141cf3af91963918de345440 level 15 encrypted

Default settings:
Service tag: 48QZ281

SW version 1.0.0.112 (date 20-Jun-2005 time 22:04:47)

Fast Ethernet Ports
==========================
no shutdown
speed 100
duplex full
negotiation
flow-control off
mdix auto
no back-pressure

Gigabit Ethernet Ports
=============================
no shutdown
speed 1000
duplex full
negotiation
flow-control off
mdix auto
no back-pressure

interface vlan 1
interface port-channel 1 - 8

spanning-tree
spanning-tree mode STP

qos basic