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Packet Capture User Guide

Starting with Antrea v2.2, Antrea supports PacketCapture for network diagnosis. It can capture specified number of packets from real traffic and upload them to a supported storage location. Users can create a PacketCapture CR to trigger packet capture on the target traffic flow.

Prerequisites

PacketCapture is disabled by default. If you want to enable this feature, you need to set feature gate PacketCapture to true in the antrea-config ConfigMap for antrea-agent.

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: antrea-config
  namespace: kube-system
data:
  antrea-agent.conf: |
    featureGates:
      PacketCapture: true

Start a new PacketCapture

When starting a new packet capture, you can provide the following information to identify the target traffic flow:

  • Source Pod, or IP address
  • Destination Pod, or IP address
  • Transport protocol (TCP/UDP/ICMP)
  • Transport ports

You can start a new packet capture by creating a PacketCapture CR. An optional fileServer field can be specified to store the generated packets file. Before that, a Secret named antrea-packetcapture-fileserver-auth located in the same Namespace where Antrea is deployed must exist and carry the authentication information for the target file server. You can also create the Secret using the following kubectl command:

kubectl create secret generic antrea-packetcapture-fileserver-auth -n kube-system --from-literal=username='<username>' --from-literal=password='<password>'

If no fileServer field is present in the CR, the captured packets file will be saved in the antrea-agent Pod (the one on the same Node with the source or destination Pod in the CR). The result path information will be available in .status.FilePath.

And here is an example of PacketCapture CR:

apiVersion: crd.antrea.io/v1alpha1
kind: PacketCapture
metadata:
  name: pc-test
spec:
  fileServer:
    url: sftp://127.0.0.1:22/upload # Define your own sftp url here.
  timeout: 60
  captureConfig:
    firstN:
      number: 5
  source:
    pod:
      namespace: default
      name: frontend
  destination:
  # Available options for source/destination could be `pod` (a Pod), `ip` (a specific IP address). These 2 options are mutually exclusive.
    pod:
      namespace: default
      name: backend
  packet:
    ipFamily: IPv4
    protocol: TCP # support arbitrary number values and string values in [TCP,UDP,ICMP] (case insensitive)
    transportHeader:
      tcp:
        dstPort: 8080 # Destination port needs to be set when the protocol is TCP/UDP.

The CR above starts a new packet capture of TCP flows from a Pod named frontend to the port 8080 of a Pod named backend using TCP protocol. It will capture the first 5 packets that meet this criterion and upload them to the specified sftp server. Users can download the packet file from the sftp server (or from the local antrea-agent Pod) and analyze its content with network diagnose tools like Wireshark or tcpdump.

Note: This feature is not supported on Windows for now.