Hi Rama,
If the port protocol is configured as Ethernet, please follow instructions from our Mellanox OFED Driver UM:
Supported in ConnectX®-4 and ConnectX®-4 Lx adapter cards only.
3.1.17 Offloaded Traffic Sniffer
Offloaded Traffic Sniffer allows bypass kernel traffic (such as, RoCE, VMA, DPDK) to be captured by existing packet analyzer such as tcpdump.
To enable Offloaded Traffic Sniffer:
1.Turn ON the new ethtool private flags "sniffer" (off by default).
$ ethtool --set-priv-flags enp130s0f0 sniffer on
2.Once the sniffer flags are set on the interested Ethernet interface, run tcpdump to capture the interface's bypass kernel traffic.
Note that enabling Offloaded Traffic Sniffer can cause bypass kernel traffic speed degradation.
ibdump - Dump "Infiniband" traffic from Mellanox Technologies ConnectX HCA
The dump file can be loaded by Wireshark for graphical traffic analysis
Sophie.