How to continuously feed sniffed packets to kafka?

Question

Currently I am sniffing packets from my local wlan interface like :

sudo tshark > sampleData.pcap

However, I need to feed this data to kafka.

Answer 1

Another option would be to use Apache NiFi. With NiFi you can execute commands and pass the output to other blocks for further processing. Here you could have NiFi execute a tshark command on the local host and then pass the output to Kafka.

There is an example here which should demonstrate this type of approach in slightly more detail.