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From: | Tristan Gingold |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Add -net dump option |
Date: | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:01:46 +0100 |
On Feb 7, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Luca Bigliardi wrote:
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:Hi,Hi Tristan,this patch add a new network pseudo nic that dump traffic to a tcpdump compatible file. I have found this feature useful to debug network protocolswith the user stack.I don't know if it entirely fits your needs, but qemu already has vdesupport, and vde has a pcap plugin to dump or monitor frames sent throughthe switch: http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/index.php/VDE_Basic_Networking#Dump_or_Monitor_switch_traffic
Thank you for the tip but it looks like vde runs only on Linux (?) and is much more complex to set up than just having a new option. I have the '-net dump' mostly to debug network setup and therefore I prefer
the simplest methods. Tristan.
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