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Install f5 wireshark plugin f5ethtrailer.so on MacOS

The documentation I could find on F5 devcentral about installing the f5 wireshark plugin goes about compiling wireshark from sources, patching the code to include the f5 plugin, etc. After downloading the 2.2.0 version I could see that the plugin is already in binary format, namely f5ethtrailer.so (this goes for all platforms, except windows where this is a dll file).

To install the plugin in wireshark, you just need to figure what is the plugin directory (Wireshark -> About Wireshark (Folders tab) menu in MacOS). The copy the f5ethtrailer.so into the Global Plugins folder. (/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/PlugIns/wireshark/ in MacOS Sierra)

Then restart wireshark and double check the plugin is present by checking the menu Wireshark -> About Wireshark (Plugins tab)

Juniper "error: Could not create temporary directory"

Got into an issue a couple of days ago on a Junos EX virtual chassis where the following was being reporded

> show system snapshot media internal member 0
fpc0:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
error: Could not create temporary directory
The command tries to create a temporary directory into the /tmp filesystem and it fails. Going to the shell prompt and trying to create a file there revealed the real issue (no inodes left; %iused = 100%):

% touch /tmp/a

/tmp: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
touch: /tmp/a: No space left on device

% df -hi /tmp
Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/md17     126M     33M     83M    28%   16382     0  100%   /tmp
Looking at the number of inodes in use, we can see that they are filled up 100% and that there were just as many files in /tmp as inodes taken. To solve this and allow some space I deleted some (most) of these files from /tmp

% df -hi /tmp/
Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/md17     126M    428K    115M     0%       7 16375    0%   /tmp