On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> 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> > --- > NEWS | 2 + > utilities/automake.mk | 5 + > utilities/ovs-tcpdump.8.in | 38 +++++ > utilities/ovs-tcpdump.in | 398 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 4 files changed, 443 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 utilities/ovs-tcpdump.8.in > create mode 100755 utilities/ovs-tcpdump.in > > diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS > index 4e81cad..a32350c 100644 > --- a/NEWS > +++ b/NEWS > @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Post-v2.5.0 > * Flow based tunnel match and action can be used for IPv6 address > using > tun_ipv6_src, tun_ipv6_dst fields. > * Added support for IPv6 tunnels to native tunneling. > + - A wrapper script, 'ovs-tcpdump', to easily port-mirror an OVS port > and > + watch with tcpdump > > v2.5.0 - 26 Feb 2016 > --------------------- > diff --git a/utilities/automake.mk b/utilities/automake.mk > index 1cc66b6..f236ec4 100644 > --- a/utilities/automake.mk > +++ b/utilities/automake.mk > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ bin_SCRIPTS += \ > utilities/ovs-l3ping \ > utilities/ovs-parse-backtrace \ > utilities/ovs-pcap \ > + utilities/ovs-tcpdump \ > utilities/ovs-tcpundump \ > utilities/ovs-test \ > utilities/ovs-vlan-test > @@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST += \ > utilities/ovs-pipegen.py \ > utilities/ovs-pki.in \ > utilities/ovs-save \ > + utilities/ovs-tcpdump.in \ > utilities/ovs-tcpundump.in \ > utilities/ovs-test.in \ > utilities/ovs-vlan-test.in \ > @@ -69,6 +71,7 @@ MAN_ROOTS += \ > utilities/ovs-parse-backtrace.8 \ > utilities/ovs-pcap.1.in \ > utilities/ovs-pki.8.in \ > + utilities/ovs-tcpdump.8.in \ > utilities/ovs-tcpundump.1.in \ > utilities/ovs-vlan-bug-workaround.8.in \ > utilities/ovs-test.8.in \ > @@ -94,6 +97,8 @@ DISTCLEANFILES += \ > utilities/ovs-pki.8 \ > utilities/ovs-sim \ > utilities/ovs-sim.1 \ > + utilities/ovs-tcpdump \ > + utilities/ovs-tcpdump.8 \ > utilities/ovs-tcpundump \ > utilities/ovs-tcpundump.1 \ > utilities/ovs-test \ > Can you add the new utility to FLAKE8_PYFILES, as well? I expect that will require some minor changes in the code, like making the print calls python 3 compatible. Thanks, -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
