Monday, September 22, 2014

[OpenFlow] Install OpenFlow Dissector to Wireshark

It is for OpenFlow 1.1 and higher version.

Get sources (for Debian-based)
git clone git://github.com/CPqD/ofdissector
sudo apt-get install wireshark wireshark-dev
export WIRESHARK=/usr/include/wireshark
Install scons and build openflow library
cd ofdissector/src
sudo -s
apt-get install scons
scons install
#mv openflow.so /usr/lib/wireshark/libwireshark1/plugins/
#cd /usr/lib/wireshark/libwireshark1/plugins/
#chown root:root openflow.so
#chmod 644 openflow.so
Run Wireshark.
wireshark

Friday, September 12, 2014

[Linux Kernel] How to build Linux kernel on Ubuntu?

The general way to build Linux kernel:
  • apt-get install libncurses-dev kernel-package bzip2 make ncurses-dev fakeroot module-init-tools patch 
  • apt-get install fakeroot build-essential kernel-package libncurses5 libncurses5-dev
  • To find the stable version from https://www.kernel.org/ and download it and tar the tar.bz2 file into /usr/src/
  • cd /usr/src/linux-source-3.2.0/   <== it is my case
  • make mrproper
  • make menuconfig
  • make -j 16
  • sudo make modules_install install
  • sudo update-grub2
  • reboot
Booting Menu:
/boot/grub/grub.cfg

Booting Linux Options:
/etc/default/grub


The Ubuntu way to do so:

  • make-kpkg clean
  • make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=danny4400 kernel_image kernel-headers 
  • cd ..
  • dpkg -i   linux-image-Push tab button)
  • ls -l /boot/
  • reboot