fxding2019 / DPDK2disk

DPDK packet capture into PCAP files. Tested up to 40Gbps

[Beta] High Speed Packet Dumper using DPDK

This application allows to dump the network's packets to a high speed disk array.

Tested up to 40Gbps

Current phase: In development

Clonning

To clone this project execute:

git clone https://github.com/hpcn-uam/DPDK2disk.git
git submodule update --init --recursive

if you want to update (pull) to a newer commit, you should execute:

git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive

DPDK-Compilation

The latest tested DPDK-repository with this application is included in the dpdk folder. Howerver, any other compatible-version could be used by exporting RTE_SDK variable.

To compile the included DPDK-release, it is recomended to execute and follow the basic dpdk-setup.sh script, example:

cd dpdk
./tools/dpdk-setup.sh
cd ..

APP-Compilation

The application is compiled automatically when executing one of the provided scripts. If you prefere to compile it manually, in the src folder there is a Makefile to do it.

Execution

In script folder, there are some example scripts:

• scripts/capture0.sh <outputFolder> [MaxFileSize] Start dumping the packets into the outputFolder. Default pcap size is 4GB.