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:orphan: Document only referenced from upgrade.rst
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Napatech as a Plugin
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====================
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Suricata 8.0 moves Napatech packet capture support to a dynamically loaded
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plugin. For convenience, this plugin is still bundled with Suricata, but it
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may be removed from the Suricata source tree into its own repository in a
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future release.
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Upgrading
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Suricata 8.0 continues to respect the ``--enable-napatech`` compile time
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option, as well as the ``--napatech`` command-line options, and also
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the ``napatech`` section of the configuration file.
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.. note:: When the Napatech capture plugin is eventually removed from the
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Suricata source tree these options may be removed and/or changed
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as this would allow the Napatech capture plugin to have its own
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release cycle and make changes independent of Suricata.
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However, the ``napatech`` capture plugin must be loaded before it can be
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used. If doing a fresh build of Suricata with Napatech support, the
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``suricata.yaml`` configuration file should be configured to load the
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plugin already, for example::
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plugins:
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- /usr/lib/suricata/napatech.so
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If you are upgrading, you will need to add the location of
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``napatech.so`` to the ``plugins`` section of your ``suricata.yaml``
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manually, as shown above.
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Existing Napatech command-line options and configuration should continue to work.
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Caveats
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-------
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Currently building the Napatech capture plugin is not compatible with the
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``--disable-shared`` configure argument.
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