This patch set is a more complete version of the the enhanced packet capture support described last year.
The new capture library and utility are: - faster avoids lots of extra I/O, does bursting, etc. - gives more information (multiple ports, queues, etc) - has a better user interface (same as Wireshark dumpcap) - fixes structural problems with VLAN's and timestamps And it keeps the old pdump command as is for those people who never want to change. The one missing piece is that dumpcap utility does not yet have the necessary converter to take the classic BPF for pcap_compile and convert it to eBPF for DPDK. (It is not hard, just not working right yet.) Stephen Hemminger (5): librte_pcapng: add new library for writing pcapng files pdump: support pcapng and filtering app/dumpcap: add new packet capture application doc: changes for new pcapng and dumpcap MAINTAINERS: add entry for new pcapng and dumper MAINTAINERS | 6 + app/dumpcap/main.c | 829 ++++++++++++++++++ app/dumpcap/meson.build | 11 + app/meson.build | 1 + doc/api/doxy-api-index.md | 1 + doc/api/doxy-api.conf.in | 1 + doc/guides/howto/packet_capture_framework.rst | 67 +- doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst | 1 + doc/guides/prog_guide/pcapng_lib.rst | 24 + doc/guides/prog_guide/pdump_lib.rst | 28 +- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst | 10 + doc/guides/tools/dumpcap.rst | 80 ++ doc/guides/tools/index.rst | 1 + lib/meson.build | 5 +- lib/pcapng/meson.build | 8 + lib/pcapng/pcapng_proto.h | 129 +++ lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c | 543 ++++++++++++ lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.h | 175 ++++ lib/pcapng/version.map | 12 + lib/pdump/meson.build | 2 +- lib/pdump/rte_pdump.c | 386 +++++--- lib/pdump/rte_pdump.h | 117 ++- lib/pdump/version.map | 8 + 23 files changed, 2283 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-) create mode 100644 app/dumpcap/main.c create mode 100644 app/dumpcap/meson.build create mode 100644 doc/guides/prog_guide/pcapng_lib.rst create mode 100644 doc/guides/tools/dumpcap.rst create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/meson.build create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/pcapng_proto.h create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.c create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/rte_pcapng.h create mode 100644 lib/pcapng/version.map -- 2.30.2
