smc-llc is a command line tool for capturing SMC LLC traffic from a network interface or reading it from a pcap file and parsing the SMC LLC messages. The LLC messages are part of the SMC protocol and are used to establish SMC connections between communication partners over RoCE devices. Although LLC messages are the main focus of this tool, it also captures and parses RoCEv1 and RoCEv2 GRHs and BTHs as well as SMC CDC messages.

You can download and install smc-llc with its dependencies to your GOPATH or GOBIN with the go tool:

$ go install github.com/hwipl/smc-llc/cmd/smc-llc

You can run smc-llc with the following command line arguments:

  -f file
        read packets from a pcap file and set it to file
  -http address
        use http server output and listen on address (e.g.: :8000 or
        127.0.0.1:8080)
  -i interface
        read packets from a network interface (default) and set it to interface
  -pcap-filter filter
        set pcap packet filter to filter (e.g.: "not port 22")
  -pcap-maxpkts number
        set maximum packets to capture to number (may require pcap-timeout
        argument)
  -pcap-maxtime seconds
        set maximum capturing time to seconds (may require pcap-timeout
        argument)
  -pcap-promisc
        set network interface to promiscuous mode (default true)
  -pcap-snaplen milliseconds
        set pcap timeout to milliseconds (default 2048)
  -pcap-timeout milliseconds
        set pcap timeout to milliseconds
  -show-bth
        show BTH of messages
  -show-grh
        show GRH of messages
  -show-hex
        show hex dumps of messages
  -show-other
        show non-LLC/CDC messages
  -show-reserved
        show reserved message fields
  -show-timestamps
        show timestamps of messages (default true)

You can specify the network interface with the command line argument -i. Make sure your user has the permission to capture traffic on the network interface. For example, you can capture packets on the interface eth0 with the following command as the root user:

# smc-llc -i eth0

Alternatively, you can read packets from a pcap file with the command line argument -f. For example you can read the packets from pcap file dump.pcap with the following command:

$ smc-llc -f dump.pcap

You can also capture packets directly from a local Mellanox infiniband device with the tool ibdump and load the resulting pcap file, e.g., sniffer.pcap, in smc-llc with the following command:

$ smc-llc -f sniffer.pcap