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diff --git a/README.septel b/README.septel deleted file mode 100644 index fbc88df38af4d..0000000000000 --- a/README.septel +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -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. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -for more information please contact me : gil_hoyek@hotmail.com |