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

[Aaron Conole]

Ping.  I'll gladly trade some review time for this :-D  Just point me to
the patches.

Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> writes:

> 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