Installing 'lim' and bringing up the Packet Café container stack

by dave-dittrich 4 years ago

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This cast shows how easy it is to bring up a Packet Café Docker container stack using the ‘lim-cli’ Python package. Within a matter of minutes you can go from nothing installed to a fully-running Packet Café stack, ready to upload PCAP files! For more, see https://pypi.org/project/lim-cli/

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