DPDK support in libpcap

[Denis Ovsienko]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 10:28:21 +0100
Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> 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.

Thank you for looking Stephen.

In case there is a volunteer to fix this at some time, this could be a
useful starting point for them.  You are welcome to update the bug
report [1] if you think this would help.

1: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues/1159

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    Denis Ovsienko