# Performance Management of Switches

What Happens

1) Client “A” sends a packet out (destined for server “C”).

2) The SWITCH sends only to the port that the packet is destined for.

3) The Probe will not see any packets.

=> It’s as if each port was it’s own subnet!

Switch

Client B

Server C

Client A

RMON Probe E

Server D

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