On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:30:40PM -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 pretty cool but I don't feel up to reviewing this much Python. Anyone else want to take a shot at it? Alternatively, if no one does, then I'm willing to just take it as-is since it's so independent of everything else and therefore low risk. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
