RB5009 mirror traffic from sfp-sfpplus1 to ether8

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Hello MikroTik community,

I’m trying to set up port mirroring on my RB5009 My goal is to mirror traffic from sfp-sfpplus1 to ether8 and my WAN is sfp port and bridge with all ports from port1 to port7

because i have pfsence device with 2 ports WAN port & LAN port

Any guidance or corrections would be greatly appreciated.
System Information:

Device: RB5009
RouterOS: 7.20.5

Thank you in advance!

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Hi

Could you please precise your goal?

What mirror is planned to be used for?
If you bridge all eth ports then you will get "mirrored trafic" from sfp on all ports. Why to not just bridge all ports to have one bridge. No mirroring needed. Do you plan any routing configuration?

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my wan port right now is sfp gpon stick I need WAN port from RB5009 (ether8) to connected to pfsense WAN port and the pfsense LAN port connected other ports (ether1-7) bridge in rb5009 because my static ip is exposed I don’t have firewall right now and I want to use pfsense firewall. hope to get my points

regards

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Still no clue what ether8 port is? Is it another WAN port?
Please draw a diagram of the planned network and data flow.
If you have no firewall so is the 5009 just a media converter? What do you use it for i pfSense is expected to do the job?

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“port mirroring” is likely not what you are looking for. you could use that to watch the traffic e.g. for debugging or maybe some intrusion detection, but not to put a firewall between the users and internet.

you could setup a second bridge or VLAN on the main bridge to put sfp and ether8 in one network and ether1-7 in another. Of course you would also need to change the IP configuration of the RB5009 to make that work.

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