Mirrored Ports with Open vSwitch

Archived article: This post documents an older Proxmox/Security Onion setup. Commands and links below may no longer be current.

After adding some new SSD storage to my home server I had purged a lot of the older VMs that I didn't use frequently in my previous 'Spring Cleaning' effort to make space. One of the VMs that I had purged but now wanted to get back online and running was a Security Onion VM. I won't go into much detail here about SecOnion, there is a lot of good documentation and tutorials already out there on how to set …

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