[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 0/3] ovs-tcpdump: A utility for convenient port mirroring

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Wed Jun 8 21:49:54 UTC 2016


Open vSwitch ships with a mirroring facility.  However, this facility can
sometimes be cumbersome to setup.  To make this easier for end users, this
patch series introduces a utility `ovs-tcpdump` which wraps the various
ovs database configurations to enable a mirror, and then invokes tcpdump
or a similar utility to monitor the mirror.

The `ovs-tcpdump` utility is also added to the fedora and debian distribution
packages.

Aaron Conole (3):
  ovs-tcpdump: Add a tcpdump wrapper utility
  fedora: Add pcap, tcpdump and tcpundump utilities to test
  debian: Add the tcpdump utility to the debian package

 NEWS                               |   2 +
 debian/openvswitch-switch.install  |   1 +
 debian/openvswitch-switch.manpages |   1 +
 manpages.mk                        |   6 +
 rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in    |  10 +-
 utilities/.gitignore               |   2 +
 utilities/automake.mk              |   9 +-
 utilities/ovs-tcpdump.8.in         |  51 +++++
 utilities/ovs-tcpdump.in           | 453 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 530 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 utilities/ovs-tcpdump.8.in
 create mode 100755 utilities/ovs-tcpdump.in

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