[dpdk-dev] filtering traffic and forward to os

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 03:35:44PM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> I'm interesting in dpdk to filter traffic.
> My use-case - i have server with 10Gbit uplink and i want to add it
> port via dpdk to ovs, filter traffic and forward it to OS (i need to
> able to ssh in this port :( )
> Does it possible after processing packet in dpdk forward it to kernel ?

To forward packets from DPDK into kernel, look at the KNI library. (For a more
standard, but lower performing option, TUN/TAP might be an option, see the 
exception path example.)

Regards,
/Bruce

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> Vasiliy Tolstov,
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