2. Congestion and packet loss on the SPAN port. You may have to consider a Gigabit SPAN port and a Gigabit IDS sensor.
We solved it by using ethernet  taps on every main Switch interface and drawing traffic down to a dedicated smaller switch, which is connected to the IDS sensor.
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