From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: DPDK support in libpcap
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 10:28:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOaVG14ZUZwNNkBGgD8phDnib7O6_cS476P2Z53dUnjTsxTLWQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250228142005.1052bd2d@atlas-11>
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Last time I looked at that code it was really ugly, and messy. But more of
importantly it was the wrong use case. Very few users will want to have a
NIC dedicated to capture only.
The whole thing should be rewritten so that tcpdump/ Wireshark can run as
secondary process using existing pdump API.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 15:20 Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> libpcap has been implementing DPDK packet capture support for some
> time, in that a contributor added this support using DPDK 18.11. This
> code stopped working with later versions of DPDK and still remains
> broken.
>
> Would anybody be interested to upgrade pcap-dpdk.c in libpcap to the
> latest stable release of DPDK, to confirm whether it works as intended
> and maybe even to keep this module better maintained in future?
>
> --
> Denis Ovsienko
>
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