Tutorial

We conducted a tutorial on libtrace at the PDCAT 2008 conference. The slides have been made available here to help people get started with libtrace. Note that these slides are pretty old now and therefore don't cover a lot of new libtrace features.

The tutorial was split into four sections:

• Introduction and Basics
• The Libtrace Tools
• Simple Libtrace Programming
• Advanced Topics

The source code examples referenced in the slide decks are also included in the examples/ directory in libtrace releases from 3.0.7 onwards.

A more up-to-date and more concise alternative are the lectures that I give to our 4th-year networking students:

• Passive Measurement with Libtrace

This wiki also includes a HOWTO for libtrace users who are looking to learn how to use the new parallel libtrace API: Parallel Libtrace HOWTO.