On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:16:55PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:53:50 +0000 > Kyle Larose <klarose at sandvine.com> wrote: > > > Hi Tim, > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:50 PM, O'Driscoll, Tim <tim.odriscoll at > > intel.com> wrote: > > > > > Tcpdump Support: Support for tcpdump will be added to DPDK. This will > > > improve usability and debugging of DPDK applications. > > > > I'm curious about the proposed tcpdump support. Is there a concrete plan > > for this, or is that still being looked into? Sandvine is interested in > > contributing to this effort. Anything we can do to help? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kyle > > We discussed an Ovscon doing a simple example of how to have a thread use > named pipe > support (already in tcpdump and wireshark). More complex solutions require > changes to > libpcap and application interaction.
Our current thinking is to use kni to mirror packets into the kernel itself, so that all standard linux capture tools can then be used. /Bruce
