| The following instructions apply if you have a Linux platform and want |
| libpcap to support the Septel range of passive network monitoring cards |
| from Intel (http://www.intel.com) |
| |
| 1) Install and build the Septel software distribution by following the |
| instructions supplied with that package. |
| |
| 2) Configure libcap. To allow the 'configure' script to locate the Septel |
| software distribution use the '--with-septel' option: |
| |
| ./configure --with-septel=DIR |
| |
| where DIR is the root of the Septel software distribution, for example |
| /var/src/septel. |
| |
| By default (if you write only ./configure --with-septel) it takes |
| ./../septel as argument for DIR. |
| |
| If the Septel software is correctly detected 'configure' will |
| report: |
| |
| checking whether we have Septel API... yes |
| |
| If 'configure' reports that there is no Septel API, the directory may have been |
| incorrectly specified or the Septel software was not built before configuring |
| libpcap. |
| |
| See also the libpcap INSTALL.txt file for further libpcap configuration |
| options. |
| |
| Building libpcap at this stage will include support for both the native |
| packet capture stream and for capturing from Septel cards. To build |
| libpcap with only Septel support specify the capture type as 'septel' |
| when configuring libpcap: |
| |
| ./configure --with-septel=DIR --with-pcap=septel |
| |
| Applications built with libpcap configured in this way will only detect Septel |
| cards and will not capture from the native OS packet stream. |
| |
| Note: As mentioned in pcap-septel.c we should first edit the system.txt |
| file to change the user part example (UPE) module id to 0xdd instead of |
| 0x2d for technical reason. So this change in system.txt is crutial and |
| things will go wrong if it's not done. System.txt along with config.txt |
| are configuration files that are edited by the user before running the |
| gctload program that uses these files for initialising modules and |
| configuring parameters. |
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| for more information please contact me : gil_hoyek@hotmail.com |