Is there any utility like tcpdump in Linux for capturing the traffic which is going over RDMA channel? (Infiniband/RoCE/iWARP)
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Is there any utility like tcpdump in Linux for capturing the traffic which is going over RDMA channel? (Infiniband/RoCE/iWARP)
Old thread, but still:
As Roland pointed out, sniffing RDMA traffic is tricky, because once the endpoints did the initial handshake, traffic goes through network card (HCA) directly to the memory.
The only way to sniff this traffic w/o putting a dedicated HW sniffer on the wire is to have vendor-specific hooks in the network card, and a SW tool that uses these hooks.
If you have Mellanox HCAs, you can use the “ibdump” tool. This tool is also a part of Mellanox OFED package.
If you have other vendor’s HW, you need to check with that vendor – you won’t find any open-source packet sniffer for all RDMA-capable devices, sorry.