Last time I looked at that code it was really ugly, and messy. But more of importantly it was the wrong use case. Very few users will want to have a NIC dedicated to capture only.
The whole thing should be rewritten so that tcpdump/ Wireshark can run as secondary process using existing pdump API. On Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 15:20 Denis Ovsienko <de...@ovsienko.info> wrote: > Hello all. > > libpcap has been implementing DPDK packet capture support for some > time, in that a contributor added this support using DPDK 18.11. This > code stopped working with later versions of DPDK and still remains > broken. > > Would anybody be interested to upgrade pcap-dpdk.c in libpcap to the > latest stable release of DPDK, to confirm whether it works as intended > and maybe even to keep this module better maintained in future? > > -- > Denis Ovsienko >
