On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:35:29PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Currently, there is some documentation which describes setting up and
> using port mirrors for bridges. This documentation is helpful to setup
> a packet capture for specific ports.
> 
> However, a utility to do such packet capture would be valuable, both
> as an exercise in documenting the steps an additional time, and as a way
> of providing an out-of-the-box experience for running a capture.
> 
> This commit adds a tcpdump-wrapper utility for such purpose. It uses the
> Open vSwitch python library to add/remove ports and mirrors to/from the
> Open vSwitch database. It will create a tcpdump instance listening on
> the mirror port (allowing the user to specify additional arguments), and
> dump data to the screen (or otherwise).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>

This is a super-awesome idea.

(I haven't reviewed the patch yet.)
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