installing pf-ring on Mac OS X

Question

I'm trying to install pf-ring on mac os x yosemite 10.10.4. Doing what's written here: http://www.ntop.org/get-started/download/ so:

git clone https://github.com/ntop/PF_RING.git
cd PF_RING/kernel

so far so good, bu when doing "make" getting this:

$ make
make -C /lib/modules/14.4.0/build SUBDIRS=/usr/local/src/PF_RING/kernel EXTRA_CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/src/PF_RING/kernel -DGIT_REV="\"dev:b2a8f8a93b226e74428424e91a2ea3bd3148123d\""' modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/14.4.0/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
Makefile:38: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

What's the problem and how to solve it? Please help! Thank you!

Answer 1

PF_RING is a driver used for capturing packets and helps with active network traffic analysis. This driver can be installed better works if you have a 10G ethernet card on the box. Coming to macOS, yes you can install it by building it from the source. Please follow the steps from this link: https://www.ntop.org/guides/pf_ring/get_started/git_installation.html.

Answer 2

Well I've asked the developers and they told me that pr_ring is not supported for OS X... Funny that there is no clear information about it on official website...