[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-users] is i40evf support promisc? // DPDK 20.11 - i40evf: No response for 14

[David Christensen]

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>      Please help to see this DPDK problem. And I want to know whether 
> i40e vf support promisc or not. Thanks a lot.

According to the README at 
https://downloadmirror.intel.com/28381/eng/readme.txt you need to enable 
a VF as trusted for promiscuous mode.  Looks like this:

# ip link set dev eth0 vf 1 trust [on|off]

Did you enable the VF as trusted before assigning the NIC to the OVS switch?

Dave