[dpdk-users] Link status?

Jason Lixfeld jason-dpdk at lixfeld.ca
Wed May 25 18:31:51 CEST 2016


It sounds like that will only tell me if link status changes, not what the current link status is?

> On May 25, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Gadre Nayan <gadrenayan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a patch available for link status change on a kni interface. It will send netlink message from the kni driver.
> 
> On 25 May 2016 9:45 p.m., "Jason Lixfeld" <jason-dpdk at lixfeld.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m messing around with MoonGen and trying to simplify some basic diagnostics before calling whatever MoonGen script I wanted to call.  Right now, I’m trying to find a way to report back the status of a link to see if it’s up so that I know whether or not it can be used as a tx or rx interface for whatever MoonGen script I want to run.
> 
> Is there an easy way to do that with an existing dpdk application, or does one need to be an super uber programmer type (which I am not anywhere close to being :)) and write some application to be able to do that?
> 
> Not sure if it matters, but I’m using an Intel 82599 6 port SFP+. I’m using v2.2.0 (I think?  Whatever the version is that is retrieved from git when I build MoonGen), Debian 8.4.
> 
> Sorry for sounding dumb.  I’m not a programmer in the least :(
> 
> Thanks in advance!



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