[dpdk-dev] Does I210 NIC support Flow director filters?

[Zhang, Helin]

FD should works on all supported NICs, though might not all FD features have been implemented. You can see some reworks are ongoing from the mail list.

Regards,
Helin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Kamraan Nasim
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 12:21 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Ean Houts; Jun Du
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Does I210 NIC support Flow director filters?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've been using DPDK fdir filter APIs for 82599 NIC(Niantic) and they work very
> well.
> 
> Was wondering if I these could also be used for I210, 1Gbps NICs?
> 
> The other option is to use 5tuple filters(rte_eth_dev_add_5tuple_filter
> <http://dpdk.org/doc/api/rte__ethdev_8h.html#aaa28adafa65a4f47d4aeceaf1
> b08381b>),
> however these do not support IPv6 yet.
> 
> 
> Have people in the community had any luck with configuring L3/L4 hardware
> filters for the I210 NIC?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kam