On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 08:41:13AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > 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.
I am in the same situation. The tool works for me with tcpdump (default) or tshark, on a dpdk port, vhost-user port or internal port (ovs bridge). I also tested with custom installation and noticed no issues. The only issue I found is that it breaks rpm build because the tool is neither packaged nor excluded. I spoke with Aaron offline and he will follow up with a fix. I will wait for that before ACK this one. -- fbl _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
