[dpdk-dev] 2.3 Roadmap

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:16:55PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.

Our current thinking is to use kni to mirror packets into the kernel itself,
so that all standard linux capture tools can then be used.

/Bruce