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1 office 1 The following instructions apply if you have a Linux platform and want
2 libpcap to support the Septel range of passive network monitoring cards
3 from Intel (http://www.intel.com)
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5 1) Install and build the Septel software distribution by following the
6 instructions supplied with that package.
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8 2) Configure libcap. To allow the 'configure' script to locate the Septel
9 software distribution use the '--with-septel' option:
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11 ./configure --with-septel=DIR
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13 where DIR is the root of the Septel software distribution, for example
14 /var/src/septel.
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16 By default (if you write only ./configure --with-septel) it takes
17 ./../septel as argument for DIR.
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19 If the Septel software is correctly detected 'configure' will
20 report:
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22 checking whether we have Septel API... yes
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24 If 'configure' reports that there is no Septel API, the directory may have been
25 incorrectly specified or the Septel software was not built before configuring
26 libpcap.
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28 See also the libpcap INSTALL.txt file for further libpcap configuration
29 options.
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31 Building libpcap at this stage will include support for both the native
32 packet capture stream and for capturing from Septel cards. To build
33 libpcap with only Septel support specify the capture type as 'septel'
34 when configuring libpcap:
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36 ./configure --with-septel=DIR --with-pcap=septel
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38 Applications built with libpcap configured in this way will only detect Septel
39 cards and will not capture from the native OS packet stream.
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41 Note: As mentioned in pcap-septel.c we should first edit the system.txt
42 file to change the user part example (UPE) module id to 0xdd instead of
43 0x2d for technical reason. So this change in system.txt is crutial and
44 things will go wrong if it's not done. System.txt along with config.txt
45 are configuration files that are edited by the user before running the
46 gctload program that uses these files for initialising modules and
47 configuring parameters.
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50 for more information please contact me : gil_hoyek@hotmail.com