[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] app/testpmd implement VXLAN/NVGRE Encap/Decap

Mohammad Abdul Awal mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com
Fri Jun 22 10:51:15 CEST 2018



On 22/06/2018 09:31, Nélio Laranjeiro wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 08:42:10AM +0100, Mohammad Abdul Awal wrote:
>> Hi Nelio,
>>
>>
>> On 21/06/2018 08:13, Nelio Laranjeiro wrote:
>>> This series adds an easy and maintainable configuration version support for
>>> those two actions for 18.08 by using global variables in testpmd to store the
>>> necessary information for the tunnel encapsulation.  Those variables are used
>>> in conjunction of RTE_FLOW_ACTION_{VXLAN,NVGRE}_ENCAP action to create easily
>>> the action for flows.
>>>
>>> A common way to use it:
>>>
>>>    set vxlan ipv4 4 4 4 127.0.0.1 128.0.0.1 11:11:11:11:11:11 22:22:22:22:22:22
>>>    flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap / queue index 0 / end
>> This way we can define only one tunnel for all the flows. This is not a
>> convenient for testing a scenario (e.g. mutiport or switch) with multiple
>> tunnels. Isn't it?
> Hi Awal.
>
> The "set vxlan" command will just configure the outer VXLAN tunnel to be
> used, when the "flow" command is invoked, it will use the VXLAN tunnel
> information and create a valid VXLAN_ENCAP action.  For instance:
>
>   testpmd> set vxlan ipv4 4 4 4 127.0.0.1 128.0.0.1 11:11:11:11:11:11 22:22:22:22:22:22
>   testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap / queue index 0 / end
>   testpmd> set vxlan ipv6 4 34 42 ::1 ::2222 80:12:13:14:15:16 22:22:22:22:22:22
>   testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap / queue index 0 / end
>
> will create two VLXAN_ENCAP flow one with IPv4 tunnel the second one
> with an IPv6.  Whereas:
>
>   testpmd> set vxlan ipv4 4 4 4 127.0.0.1 128.0.0.1 11:11:11:11:11:11 22:22:22:22:22:22
>   testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 src is 10.2.3.4 / end
>   	actions vxlan_encap / queue index 0 / end
>   testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern eth / ipv4 src is 20.2.3.4 / end
>   	actions vxlan_encap / queue index 0 / end
>
> will encapsulate the packets having as IPv4 source IP 10.2.3.4 and
> 20.2.3.4 with the same VXLAN tunnel headers.

I understand that the same IPv4 tunnel will be used for both flows in 
your example above.  I have the following questions.

1) How can we create two or more IPv4 (or IPv6) tunnel?
1) How can we make the flows to use different IPv4 tunnels?
As an example,

  testpmd> set vxlan ipv4 4 4 4 127.0.0.1 128.0.0.1 11:11:11:11:11:11 22:22:22:22:22:22
  testpmd> set vxlan ipv4 4 4 4 127.0.0.1 128.0.0.1 33:33:33:33:33:33 44:44:44:44:44:44
  testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap <first tunnel?> / queue index 0 / end
  testpmd> flow create 0 ingress pattern end actions vxlan_encap <second tunnel?> / queue index 0 / end
  

Is it possible?

Regards,
Awal.

>
> Regards,
>



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