Connects a monitoring device to a local port and receives a copy of every piece of traffic going into or out of the network device.

• A. Local Traffic Mirroring
• B. SPAN or Mirrored Port
• C. Traffic Mirroring
• D. Remote Traffic Mirroring

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is capturing traffic by duplicating frames on the switch and sending those copies to a monitoring device connected to a port on the same device. This is called local traffic mirroring. By configuring the switch to mirror all ingress and egress traffic to a designated port, a connected monitoring device can observe the full traffic stream without interfering with the original flow. The emphasis on “local port” distinguishes this from remote mirroring (where the copies are sent to a device on another switch or across the network) and from more generic or broader wording. So, the scenario matches local traffic mirroring: a monitoring device plugged into a local port receives copies of all traffic going in and out of the network device.