Mirrored Ports with Open vSwitch

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 it up. Security Onion requires at least two network interfaces; one for administrative control, and at least one more that …

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