[dpdk-dev] 2.3 Roadmap

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:53:50 +0000
Kyle Larose <klarose at sandvine.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:50 PM, O'Driscoll, Tim <tim.odriscoll at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Tcpdump Support: Support for tcpdump will be added to DPDK. This will improve usability and debugging of DPDK applications.
> 
> I'm curious about the proposed tcpdump support. Is there a concrete plan for this, or is that still being looked into? Sandvine is interested in contributing to this effort. Anything we can do to help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kyle 

We discussed an Ovscon doing a simple example of how to have a thread use named pipe
support (already in tcpdump and wireshark). More complex solutions require changes to
libpcap and application interaction.